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From the Year 1735 to Nov. 1, 1885. 


COMPILED BY THEO. W. ELLIS. 


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Apostles’ Creed,. 7 

Ancient Creed and Covenant, 8 

Baptism op Children, . . . 9 

Infant Baptism, 10 

Articles of Faith, 12 

Covenant, 15 

Reception of Members from Other Churches, .... 16 

Regulations, 19 

Membership, 1885, 25 

Officers, 26 

Church Roll, 28 

List of all the Members of the Church, from 1735 to 1885, . 47 

Miscellaneous: 

Wm. Pynchon, 49 

Samuel Chapin, 52 

Half-way Covenant, 57 

Rev. Robert Breck, 72 

Rev. Samuel Osgood, D. D. , Ill 

Rev. H. M. Parsons, . . . 132 

Rev. E. A. Reed, D. D. , ' . . 145 

Rev. E. P. Terhune, D. D., 154 

Rev. Michael Burnham, 156 

Table of Ministers, 157 

Records of the Church, 158 

Officers, 1886, 159 

The First Church in Missions, 160 

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CHURCH ORGANIZED. 1637. SABBATH SCHOOL INSTITUTED, 
1818. NEW CHAPEL AND SABBATH SCHOOL 
ROOMS COMPLETED, 1874. 


Springfield was settled by emigrants from Roxbury in the spring 
of 1636. The First church was probably organized during the next 
year, 1637, and Rev. George Moxon was the first pastor. He had 
received Episcopal ordination in England, and was dismissed, at his 
own request, in 1652. Of Mr. Moxon little is known after his return 
to England; it is believed that he was never again in charge of a 
church. For eight years following, Mr. John Pynchon, Deacons 
Wright and Chapin, and others “carried on the public worship.” 
The successor of Mr. Moxon, Rev. Pelatiah Gloyer, of Dorchester, y 
was settled in 1660, and continued in office till his death, at the age 
of fifty-five years, March 29, 1692. Rev. Daniel Brewer, a na- 
tive of Roxbury, and a graduate of Harvard college in 1687, was 
ordained pastor of the church, May, 1694, and continued in the min- 
istry till his death, November 5, 1733. His age was sixty-six, and 
the length of his ministry, forty years. Of him, the Rev. Mr. 
Williams, of Longmeadow, wrote in his diary : “ I bless God for 
such a neighbor.” Rev. Robert Breck, a native of Marlboro, was 
graduated at Harvard in 1730, and was ordained and set over this 
church, January 27, 1736. After a ministry of forty-eight years, he 
died, April 23, 1784, aged seventy. Rev. Bezaleel Howard, D. D., 
was born at Bridgewater in 1753, was graduated at Harvard in 1781, 
and was ordained pastor of the church, April 27, 1785. From ill 
health he resigned the active duties of the ministry in 1803, and 
was dismissed January 25, 1809. He lived honored and respected 
in his retirement, and died at the age of eighty-three, January 20, 
1837. Rev. Samuel Osgood, D. D., was born at Fryeburg, Me;, 
February 3, 1784. He was graduated at Dartmouth college, 1805, 


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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


read theology at Dorchester, in 1806 was licensed to preach, studied 
theology at Princeton, N. J., and was ordained and installed over 
the church, January 25, 1809. He resigned the active duties 
of the pastorate, May 1, 1854, but continued actively employed in 
doing good, preaching in vacant pulpits, visiting the poor and 
destitute of the city, to the time of his death, December 8, 1862, 
in the seventy-ninth year of his age, and the fifty-fourth of his 
ministry. 

Rev. Henry Martyn Parsons (the seventh pastor) was born at 
East Haddarn, Ct., November 13, 1828, was graduated at Yale col- 
lege in 1848, and at the Connecticut Theological Institute in 1854. 
He was ordained and installed, November 15, 1854, and served faith- 
fully as pastor of the church until November 15, 1870, when he was 
dismissed, at his own request, in order to accept a call from another 
church. 

Rev. Edward Allen Reed (the eighth pastor) was ordained and 
installed, June 14, 1871, and dismissed to another field, July 15, 1878. 

Rev. Edward P. Terhune, D. D. (the ninth pastor), was grad- 
uated at the theological seminary of the Reformed (Dutch) church, 
and ordained in 1855, — two pastoral charges before his settlement 
here, viz.: at Charlotte C. H., Va., and Newark, N. J.; installed over 
this church, April 30, 1879. He was dismissed at his own request in 
order to accept a call to the Reformed (Dutch) church on Bedford 
avenue, Brooklyn, May 19, 1884. 

Rev. Michael Burnham (the tenth pastor) was born in Essex, 
Mass., and was installed over the First church, February 27, 1885. 
His previous pastorates were the Central Congregational church, of 
Fall River, and Immanuel Congregational church, of Boston High- 
lands. 

The history of this church is a noted instance of the permanence 
of the pastoral relation. From the time of its organization to the 
settlement of Rev. Mr. Reed, a period of two hundred and thirty- 
four years, the church had but seven pastors, and has been without 
a settled pastor at different times, in all, only fourteen years. The 
first six pastors ended their ministry with their labors here; three 
died in active service, and the average length of pastorate of each 
was thirty-two years. 


ARTICLES OF FAITH, 
COVENANT, 

RECEPTION OF MEMBERS, 


ETC. 






He: Qpestfes’ ©reed. 


[Most probably composed of various confessions of faith used by the primitive church 
in baptismal services, and later introduced as part of the usual church service dunng the 
the fourth century.'] 

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and 
earth; and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was con- 
ceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under 
Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into 
hell (or into the place of departed spirits); the third day he rose 
from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right 
hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to 
judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the 
holy Catholic Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of 
sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen. 


©OUGFHimt. 


[Used by this church from its organization in 1637 to 1821.] 

You, professing your serious belief of the Christian religion, as 
it is contained in the Sacred Scriptures, do now seriously and very 
solemnly give up yourself to God in our Lord Jesus Christ, resolving 
with his help to conform your life to the rules of his holy religion so 
long as you live; and repenting of all things wherein you have trans- 
gressed, you give yourself to the Lord Jehovah, who is the Father, 
the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and receive him as your God and 
portion. 

You give yourself to the Lord Jesus Christ and rely upon him as 
the Head of his people in the covenant of grace, and as your 
Prophet, Priest and King forever. 

You give yourself to this church of his, engaging with his help, 
in the communion thereof to attend upon all the ordinances of the 
gospel, so long as your opportunity to be thereby edified shall here 
be continued to you. 


etpfigm ©f ©hifdren. 


COVENANT. 

[During the reading of these, or other Scriptures, or an appropriate chant by the 
choir, the parents will bring their children forward for baptism.'] 

“ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, 
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” 

“ Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean.” 

‘‘ So shall he sprinkle many nations.” 

“ Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the 
kingdom of God. And he took them in his arms and blessed them.” 

“ For the promise is unto you, and to your children.” 

“ For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of 
liim. Therefore, also, I have lent him to the Lord ; as long as he liveth he shall be 
lent to the Lord.” 

“He will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep 
the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment.” 

Dearly Beloved: Believing that the covenant God made with 
Abraham, for himself and his posterity, in respect to all spiritual 
gifts and blessings, has been continued in this dispensation and fully 
ratified by Jesus Christ, the Messenger of the covenant, to all his 
believing people; and recognizing in the seal of baptism, divinely 
appointed, the spiritual truth that our Saviour Christ, who com- 
manded it to be administered, will, by the power of his Holy Spirit, 
effectually work in the hearts of his elect, in time convenient, all 
that is meant and signified by the same: — 

You now present this child to the Lord in this public way to be 
his forever; and you do solemnly promise to instruct him in the 
principles of the gospel, to maintain before him a life of prayer and 
godliness, and to endeavor in all Christian fidelity to bring him up in 
the nurture and admonition of the Lord — thus by the divine bless- 
ing fitting him for the communion and fellowship of saints in the 
Church on earth and in heaven. — Thus you truly and heartily engage. 


fpiftmt Baptism. 


The following are some of the Scriptures on which we rest for 
authority in Infant Baptism: — 

1st. The covenant which God made with Abraham included 
blessings for the posterity of believers: — Gen. 17:7, “And I will 
establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee 
in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto 
thee and to thy seed after thee.” 

The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost, urged re- 
pentance and baptism on this ground: “For the promise is unto 
you, and to your children.” No one denies' that Jewish children 
were included with their parents in this covenant. 

2d. This covenant, which God made with Abraham, was not abol- 
ished with the Jewish ritual. For, Rom. 15: 8, “ Jesus Christ was a 
minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the 
promises made unto the fathers.” Gal. 3:17, “And this I say, that 
the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, 
which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that 
it should make the promise of none effect.” Gal. 3:29, “If ye be 
Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the 
promise.” 

3d. The covenant wfith its ancient seal of circumcision had a 
spiritual meaning. As it was renewed to the Church in Christ, the 
same import attends its meaning under the seal of baptism. 

Col. 2:11, 12, “ In whom also ye are circumcised with the circum- 
cision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the 
flesh by the circumcision of Christ: buried with him in baptism, 
wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the opera- 
tion of God, who hath* raised him from the dead.” 

4th. Our Lord recognized this rite in his ministry. The disciples 
kept back the little children from him, Mark 10: 14, “ But when Jesus 
saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them: Suffer the little 


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children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the 
kingdom of God.” 

5th. One-third of the baptisms mentioned in the New Testament 
were household baptisms. Speaking of Lydia, who believed, the rec- 
ord, Acts 16:15, says: “ She was baptized, and her household.” - 
Again in the 33d verse, when the jailer believed, “ He was baptized, 
he and all his, straightway.” 1 Cor. 1:16, Paul says: “And I bap- 
tized also the household of Stephanas.” 

6th. We practice this rite because the Scriptures declare the faith 
of one of the parents sufficient to authorize the seal of the covenant. 
1 Cor. 7: 14, “For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, 
and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your 
children unclean; but now are they holy.” This was spoken to a 
Christian church, and the simple meaning of it is: that if the faith 
of one parent was not under the promise, then the children would be 
out of the covenant, but now they are under it, and entitled to its 
seal. 


Grfiefes ©f ^©it&. 


Adopted by the First Church of Christ, Springfield, January 5, 1821, 


ARTICLE I. 

We believe that there is but one God; the Creator, Preserver and 
Moral Governor of the universe ; a being of infinite power, knowl- 
edge, wisdom, justice, goodness and truth; the self-existent, 
independent and immutable foymtain of good; that the mode of 
divine existence is such as lays a foundation for a distinction into 
three persons — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and that 
these three are one in essence, and equal in power and glory. 

ARTICLE II. 

We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments 
were given by inspiration of God ; that they are profitable for doc- 
trine, for correction, for reproof, and for instruction in righteousness ; 
and that they are our only rule of • doctrinal belief and religious 
practice. 

ARTICLE III. 

We believe that God has made all things for himself ; that known 
unto him are all his works from the beginning ; and that he governs 
all things according to the counsel of his own will ; that the divine 
law and the principles and administration of the divine government 
are perfectly holy, just and good ; and that all rational beings are 
bound to approve of them as such. 

ARTICLE IV. 

We believe that God at first created man in his own image, in a 
state of rectitude and holiness, and that he fell from that state 
by transgressing the divine command in the article of forbidden 
fruit; that in consequence of the apostasy, the heart of man in 
his natural state, is destitute of holiness, and in a state of positive 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


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disaffection with the law, character and government of God ; and 
that all men previous to regeneration are dead in trespasses and sins. 

ARTICLE V. 

We believe that Christ, the Son of God, has by his obedience, 
sufferings and death, made atonement for sin ; that he is the only 
Redeemer of sinners ; and that all who are saved will be altogether 
indebted to the grace and mercy of God for their salvation. 

ARTICLE VI. 

We believe that although the invitations of the gospel are such, 
that whosoever will, may come and take of the water of life freely, 
yet the depravity of the human heart is such, that no man will come 
to Christ, except the Father, by the special and efficacious influences 
of his Spirit, draw him. 

ARTICLE VII. 

We believe that those who embrace the gospel were chosen in 
Christ before the foundation of the world, that they should be holy, 
and without blame before him in love; and that they are saved, not 
by works of righteousness which they have done, but according to 
the distinguishing mercy of God, through sanctification of the Spirit 
and belief of the truth. 

ARTICLE VIII. 

We believe that those who cordially embrace Christ, although they 
may be left to fall into sin, never will be left finally to fall away and 
perish ; but will be kept by the power of God through faith, unto 
salvation. 

ARTICLE IX. 

We believe that watchfulness over the life, holy meditation, a 
conscientious attendance upon public, family and secret worship, 
together with the steady practice of righteousness, truth, sincerity, 
and charity towards man, and of sobriety, chastity and temperance 
towards ourselves, are the indispensable duties of every Christian. 

ARTICLE X. 

We believe that there will be a general resurrection of the bodies 
both of the just and of the unjust; that all mankind must one day 


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stand before the judgment seat of Christ, to receive a just and final 
sentence of retribution according to the deeds done in the body; 
and that at the day of judgment, the state of all will be unalterably 
fixed; and that the punishment of the wicked, and the happiness of 
the righteous will be endless. 

ARTICLE XI. 

We believe that Christ has • a visible Church in the world, into 
which none in the sight of God but real believers, and none in 
the sight of man but visible believers have right of admission. 

ARTICLE XII. 

We believe that the sacraments of the New Testament are bap- 
tism and the Lord’s supper; that believers in regular church standing 
only can consistently partake of the Lord’s supper, and that visible 
believers and their households only, can consistently be admitted to 
the ordinance of baptism. 


Gouenenl. 


Adopted by the First Church of Christ, Springfield, January 5, 1821. 


You do now, in the presence of God and man, avouch the Lord 
Jehovah, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, to be your God, the supreme 
object of your affections, and your chosen portion forever. You 
cordially acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ in all his mediatorial 
offices, Prophet, Priest and King, as your only Saviour and final 
Judge; and the Holy Spirit as your Sanctifier, Comforter and Guide. 
You humbly and cheerfully devote yourseli to God, in the everlast- 
ing covenant of grace. You consecrate all your powers and 
faculties to his service and glory; and you promise to take the 
Scriptures as the rule of your life and conversation; and that through 
the assistance of his Spirit and grace you will cleave to him as 
your chief good; that you will give diligent attention to his word 
and ordinances, to family and secret prayer, and to the observance of 
his Sabbath; that you will seek the honor of his name and the 
interest of his kingdom; and that henceforth denying all ungodli- 
ness, and every worldly lust, you will live soberly, righteously, and 
godly, in the world. 

You do now cordially join yourself to this- as a church of Christ, 
engaging to submit to its discipline, so far as conformable to the 
rules of the gospel; and solemnly covenanting to strive, as much as 
in you lies, for its gospel peace, edification and purity; and to walk 
with its members in Christian love, faithfulness, circumspection, . 
meekness and sobriety; and abandoning the sinful pleasures and 
amusements of the world, to prove what is that good and acceptable 
and perfect will of God. — Thus you covenant, promise and engage. 

(All the members of the church here rise.) 

We do now receive you into our communion, and promise to 
watch over you with Christian affection and tenderness, ever treat- 
ing you in love as a member of the body of Christ, who is Head 
over all things to the Church. This we do, imploring of the Great 
Shepherd of Israel, our Lord and Redeemer, that both you and we 
may have wisdom and grace to be faithful in his covenant, and 
to glorify him with the holiness which becomes his house forever. 
Amen. 


J^seeption of fflemberg from 
Giber C flu re beg. 


On the communion Sabbath, immediately after the admission 
of those who profess their faith (or if none are thus admitted), 
before the communion service, the names of those whose letters have 
been accepted, shall be read, together with the names of churches 
recommending them, and presenting themselves before the congre- 
gation they shall receive the following address: — 

Christian Friends: — 

In a former connection, you have avowed your belief in the 
cardinal doctrines of our faith, and sustained a visible union to the 
Great Head of the Church. Bearing testimonials of good standing 
in the Church of Christ, which we receive as valid, you are now to 
assume similar obligations, and enter into like engagements with us. 

Do you, therefore, accept the Articles of Faith, and adopt the 
Covenant of this church ? (The members assenting .) In behalf of 
this church, I, therefore, welcome you to its fellowship, and declare 
you entitled to all its privileges. And may the God of peace tKat 
brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great 
Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting cove- 
nant, make you perfect in every good work, to do his will, working 
in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ ; 
to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. 


REGULATIONS. 




rations. 


SACRAMENTS. 

1. The Lord’s supper will be administered, ordinarily, on the 
first Sabbath in January, March, May, July, September, and No- 
vember ; and baptism to children, ordinarily, on the second Sabbath 
of every month. 

CHURCH MEETINGS. 

2. A meeting of this church shall be held annually on the second 
Thursday evening of December, at which the records of the preced- 
ing year shall be read ; all annual officers of the church shall be 
chosen ; the catalogue of members shall be revised ; the deacons, 
and superintendents of the Sabbath school shall present accounts of 
all moneys received, expended or held by them, in behalf of the 
church during the preceding year, stating the time and manner of 
their collection and expenditure, which accounts are to be placed on 
file by the clerk ; and such other business shall be done as may be 
appointed or proper for said meeting. 

The annual meeting, and all other meetings of the church for the 
transaction of special business, shall be notified on the Sabbath day 
preceding, and all members of the church present may vote therein. 

Any meeting of the church, duly notified by the pastor, or by re- 
quest of three members, shall be a regular meeting for business. 

PASTOR. 

3. It is desirable that the pastor should be a member of the 
church to which he ministers and over the meetings of which he 
ordinarily presides ; and when not already a member he will be ex- 
pected to unite with the church at the first convenient opportunity. 

* 

DEACONS. 

4. The number of deacons shall be six, one of whom shall be 
chosen by ballot at each annual meeting. They shall hold their 
offices respectively for the term of six years, from the annual meet- 


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ing of the year in which they are elected ; provided, that in case of 
a vacancy in the office by reason of the death, resignation, or re- 
moval of the incumbent, his successor shall be chosen to fill out the 
remainder of the vacant term. 

The deacons, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall 
be consecrated by appropriate services, including their public assent 
to the Articles of Faith. 

STANDING COMMITTEE. 

5. The pastor, deacons, and the clerk of the church, and the 
superintendent of the Sabbath school, together with four members, 
two of whom shall be chosen at each annual meeting to serve for 
two years, shall all be elected by ballot and shall constitute a stand- 
ing committee, whose duty it shall be to examine the qualifications 
of applicants for admission to the church; to attend to matters of 
discipline, and bring before the church such cases as in their opinion 
may require its action; to appoint all officers of the Sabbath school, 
other than the superintendent; to recommend measures for the ad- 
vancement of the Redeemer’s kingdom; and to do whatever business 
may be referred to them by the church. 

CLERK. 

6. The clerk shall be chosen by ballot to serve for one year, and 
until another is chosen ; and it shall be his duty to keep a record 
containing minutes of the doings of the church, its standing regu- 
lations, recorded in a place by themselves, and a chronological list of 
its members, with the time of their admission, dismission, or death, 
so far as he can ascertain the same. 

SABBATH SCHOOL AND BIBLE SERVICE. 

7. The church assumes the care and responsibility of the Sabbath 
school and Bible service as a part of its Christian work; and the 
standing committee, under the direction of the church, shall have 
the control and management of the school. The superintendent 
shall be elected by the church (by ballot) at the annual meeting. 

COMMITTEE OF FEMALE MEMBERS. * 

8. At each annual ipeeting, there shall be chosen a committee of 
five female members, who shall aid the standing committee in church 
work as occasion may require. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


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ADMISSIONS. 

9. Persons who desire to make a profession of religion and to 
join this church, upon making known their request to the pastor or 
deacons, shall be examined by the standing committee and other 
members of the church who may desire, and if approved, shall be 
propounded in the presence of the congregation one week, after 
which they may, by vote of the church, be received, upon 'the Ar- 
ticles of Faith and the Covenant being read, and by them assented 
to, and baptism being administered to such as have not before re- 
ceived it. 

The third Friday evening before each communion Sabbath shall 
be the stated time for the examination of applicants, who shall then 
receive a copy of the Articles of Faith and the Covenant. 

Members of other churches in fellowship with us, applying for 
admission to this church with letters of recommendation from their 
respective churches, shall not be admitted upon such letters merely, 
but every such case shall be referred to the standing committee, and 
the applicants be propounded one week in the presence of the con- 
gregation. By vote of the church, they may then be received, on. 
their assent to the Articles of Faith and Covenant. 

DISMISSION. 

10. All letters of dismission from this church and recommenda- 
tion to another church in fellowship with us, shall be given by vote 
of the church, upon application made known to it one week before, 
and shall be signed by the pastor or the clerk. 

The clerk shall at the same time send a duplicate of the letter to 
the pastor of the church to which the member is recommended. 

No letter of recommendation shall be valid after one year from its 
date. 

ABSENT MEMBERS. 

11. Whenever members of this church shall change their place 
of residence or of worship, it shall be their duty, as soon as they 
conveniently can, to apply to this church for letters of dismission 
and recommendation to some other church in fellowship with us, if 
there is such in their neighborhood; and if they shall delay this ap- 
plication more than one year after such change, letters shall not be 
granted, unless special reasons satisfactory to this church are as- 
signed for the delay. 

Immediately after the annual meeting, it shall be the duty of the 


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clerk to forward copies of these Regulations respecting absent mem- 
bers, to such as shall be found to have changed their place of resi- 
dence or worship without applying to us for dismission; and if such 
absent members shall disregard the communication, they shall . be 
considered as guilty of a breach of fellowship. 

MEMBERS OF OTHER CHURCHES. 

4 

12. No member of another church, residing in this city and ac- 
customed to worship with us, will be expected to commune with this 
church more than one year, without applying to the pastor or other 
members of the standing committee, for admission to this church, or 
making known satisfactory reasons for delay. 

INDIGENT MEMBERS. 

13. At each communion season there shall be a collection, to be 
disbursed by the deacons of the church, with the advice of the stand- 
ing committee, for the comfortable maintenance of indigent mem- 
bers, and for defraying all necessary church expenses. 

DISCIPLINE. 

14. Whereas, gospel discipline is indispensable to the purity and 
well being of the Church of Christ, whenever any member of this 
church knows cause of complaint against another member for dis- 
ciplinable offenses, Christian watchfulness requires of him to make 
known the same to the church through the standing committee, in 
order that the offender may be properly dealt with, and the offense 
removed; provided however, that if the offense be of a private 
nature the complainant ought to pursue the course prescribed in 
Matthew 18: 15-17. 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

15. Contributions shall be taken up for benevolent purposes, at 
such times and in such modes as the church may direct, by collectors 
to be appointed by the standing committee. 

At the annual meeting a treasurer shall be chosen by ballot, who 
shall take charge of all moneys contributed, and forthwith deposit 
them in his name as treasurer of the First church in Springfield, in 
some one of the national banks of this city, to be designated by the 
deacons. He shall keep a distinct and accurate account with the 
different funds for which the contributions are taken, and present a 
written report of the same at the annual meeting, specifying the 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


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times when and the objects for which they were taken, and the dis- 
position made of the money, which report, if accepted, shall be 
placed on file by the clerk of the church. 

He shall pay over all the sums contributed at the Bible service, or 
for its use, as he shall be directed by the committee on the Sabbath 
school, unless the church makes a special appropriation of them; all 
sums contributed at the communion, or for the charities of the church 
to the deacons, or their order; and all other sums as he shall be di- 
rected by the standing committee. 

TEMPERANCE. 

16. We believe that the use of intoxicating liquor as a beverage, 
and the traffic in it as an article of luxury or diet, are inconsistent 
with the spirit and requirements of the Christian religion, and ought 
to be abandoned throughout the world. Therefore, in admitting 
members to this church we will act in accordance with this belief. 

VACANCIES. 

17. Vacancies occurring in any office may be filled at any church 
meeting duly notified; until filled by the church, they may, except 
in the case of deacon, be filled by appointment of the standing com- 
mittee. 








































































































LIST OF 


OFFICERS AND MEMBERS. 


i 


“Occupy till I come.” 


1885 . 



ffieerg ©f tfie ©KureH <md Parish. 


PASTOR, 

Rev. MICHAEL BURNHAM. 


DEACONS. 


JNO. R. HIXON, Elected 

ADDISON P. WARE, Elected 

JOHN GILES, Elected 

STEPHEN CHAPIN, Elected 

CHARLES E. BROWN, Elected 

JAMES L. JOHNSON, Elected 


1865, 

Term Expires 1890. 

1880, 

Term Expires 1886. 

1882, 

Term Expires 1888. 

1883, 

Term Expires 1889. 

1883, 

Term Expires 1891. 

1884, 

Term Expires 1887 


Clerk, DANIEL P. COLE. 
Treasurer, J. AUGUSTUS ROBBINS. 


SABBATH SCHOOL. 

Superintendent, WILLIAM P. DRAPER. 

ASSISTANTS, 

DANIEL P. COLE, RALPH W. ELLIS, H. F. RICH. 

Secretary, JAS. H. CLARK. Assistant, GEO. F. SMITH.^ 
Librarian, Dr. W. E. HOLT. Assistant, C. W. PHILLIPS. 
Usher, C. A. MORGAN. 


PARISH. 


COMMITTEE, 

WM. H. HAILE, WM. L. BARNARD, 

A. B. WALLACE, A. A. PACKARD, 

CHAS. E. BROWN. 

Clerk, E. DUDLEY CHAPIN. 

Treasurer, RALPH W. ELLIS. 

Sexton, O. H. PERRY. 


THE MEMBERSHIP. 


Total Number of Members, 775. 
Males, 241. Females, 534. 
Residents, 646. Non-Residents, 129. 


f Non-resident. } Husband and 1 
Adams, Harriet S. (wife David A.) 
Adams, James S. ) 

Adams, Caroline E. ) 

Adams, Wm. F. ) 

Adams, Jennie E. Strong j 
Alden, Ella S. (wife Elbert A.) 
Allen, Helen J. 

Ames, Nathan E. | 

Ames, Delia ) 

Ames, Olive M. (w. Samuel) 
Anderson, Ellen 
Anderson, Emily Augusta 
Anderson, Miss Belle B. 

Armstrong, Anna E. (w.) 

Ashcroft, Rissa L. Fay (wife Chas. 
Ashley, Clarissa (w. Noah) 

Ashley, Mary (w. Norman) 

Avery, Henry ) 

Avery, Sarah H. ) 

Avery, Seth W. ) 

Avery, Elizabeth M. ) 

Avery, Sarah Osgood (w. Alex. H.) 
Ayers, Everard ) 

Ayers, Melissa A. £ 

Baker, Helen M. 

Baker, Miss Julia 

Bailey, Sarah L. (wife Chester L.) 

Bailey, Huldah T. (w. Samuel E.) 

Ballinger, Catherine 

Banister, Jonathan F. 

Barber, Myron E. 
f Barber, Mrs. Mary G. (w.) 
fBardwell, George Dwight 
Barker, Willard R. ) 

Barker, Mary F. ) 

Barnard, William L. 


ife. w Widow. 


1835 

Cong., Mansfield, Ct. 

1861 


1871 


1866 


1878 


1873 

1st Cong., Westfield. 

1875 

1st Cong., W. Springfield. 

1877 

North, City. 

1877 

U (< 

1878 

North, City. 

1858 


1878 


1883 


1870 

East Cong., AVare. 

!.) 1877 


1847 


1874 


1846 

Cong., Windsor, Ct. 

1844 


1856 


1856 


1864 

Harvard Cong., Brookline. 

1874 

1st Cong., North Adams. 

1874 

<< <C 

1873 

1st Cong., S. Windsor, Ct. 

1883 


1871 


1879 

Union, AVorcester. 

1885 

Pres., N. Y. Mills, N. Y. 

1883 

Edwards, Northampton. 

1873 

1st Pres., Scranton, Pa. 

1867 

North Cong., City. 

1884 


1876 

Cong., Agawam. 

1870 

1st Cong., AA^indsor, Vt. 

1875 

Baptist, Shelburne Falls. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


29 


f Barnes, Catherine W. 
f Barnes, George A. 
f Barnes, Wm. H. 

Barnes, Laura G. (w. H. C.) 

Barnes, Miss Emma A. 

Barney, Arthur E. 

Barrett, R. Cecil . ) 

Barrett, Catherine H. ) 

Barrett, Arthur F. 

Barrett, Fannie L. 

Barrett, Horace H. 
f Bartlett, Frank A. 
fBatchelder, Charles W. ) 
fBatchelder, Adelaide L. ) 

Bates, Elizabeth 
Bayliss, Esther A. 

Beebe, Kate (wife Henry J.) 

Beldin, George Morrison 
Beldin, Rachel C. (wife H. L.) 

Bemis, Henry S. 7 
Bemis, Henrietta ) 

Berry, Melvin A. 

Bestor, Adeline 
fBidwell, Lucy M. • 

Bigelow, Frank B. 

Bill, Ruth E. Wight (wife N. D.) 
Billings, Frances C. (w. H. E.) 
fBirnie, Thomas P. 

Blake, Chloe (w. Elijah) 
fBlake, Charles 

Blake, Mrs. Ada M. (wife Charles E.) 
Blair, Atkins E. ) 

Blair, Hattie E. Simonds j 


1875 
1877 

1877 
1882 

1884 
1883 
1867 
1867 
1874 
1874 

1878 
1867 

1876 
1876 
1844 

1885 
1881 
1878 


1st Cong., W. Brookfield. 
1st Cong., W. Brookfield. 
Cong., Agawam. 


Cong., Somers, Ct. 

44 44 44 


2d Cong., Hartford, Ct. 

u u 


North, City. 
North, City. 


1880 *Classon Av. Pres., Brooklyn. 

1876 

1878 

1883 Cong., Westhampton. 

1878 Olivet, City. 

1871 S. Baptist, Hartford, Ct. 

1884 
1878 

1868 Cong., Somers, Ct. 

1876 

1844 

1833 Pres., Ovid, N. Y. 

1882 Cong., Westford, Yt. 

1883 Methodist, Palmer. 

1874 


+ Bliss, Rev.Edwin E.(Miss. A.B.C.F.M.) 1831 

Bliss, Miss Margaret 

1831 

Bliss, Miss Lois 

1835 

Bliss, Luther, Jr. 

1858 

fBliss, Sarah P. (w. Richard) 

1835 

Bliss, Caroline E. 

1851 

Bliss, Achsah 

1826 

Bliss, George Gardner 

1878 

Blue, Mrs. Elizabeth J. (w. Neil) 

1883 

Bly, Lucy (wife E. H.) 

1866 

fBond, Almenia (w.) 

1857 

Bond, Martha H. 

1870 

Booth, Mary E. (wife Dr.) 

1878 


Cong., Brandon, Yt. 


1st Cong., Palmer. 
Methodist, Durham, Ct. 


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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Bowen, Abigail L. (wife ) 

Bowen, L. E. (w. Nelson O.) 
Boynton, M. Lizzie 
-fBradway, Win. H. 

Brace, Sarah L. 

Brace, John Douglass 
Brady, Miss Adelia C. 

Brailey, Eliza Ann (wife John Q.) 
Brailey, Cora M. 
t Brewer, Francis A. 

Brewer, Mary Adams 
f Briggs, Harry Dwight) 
f Briggs, Ida Maria j 
Brigham, Mary B. (w. Elbridge) 
Brooks, Annie L. (wife Dr. L. S.) 
Brooks, Dr. S. D. 

Brown, Charles Edwin ) 

Brown, Mary Elizabeth } 

Bruce, Margaret 
Bruce, George ) 

Bruce, Ellen Geddes } 

Brug, Mrs. Gertrude (w. Charles) 
Brug, Nellie E. 

Brug, Theresa M. 

Buckler, M. Matilda 
Buckler, Elizabeth 
Bugbee, Charles A. ) 

Bugbee, Maria J. j 
Bunker, Lizzie Pearl 
Burbank, Caroline C. 

Burnham, Rev. Michael ) 

Burnham, Cassandra V. j 
Burns, Amy (wife of D.) 

Burt, Arthur S. ) 

Burt, Alice A. ( 

Burt, Adelia R. (wife Marcus L.) 
Burt, George Sunnier ) 

Burt, Nettie Clara | 

Butler, Joseph ) 

Butler, Almira j 

Butts, Elizabeth C. (wife John D.) 

Caldwell, Susan J. 

Calhoun, Charles K. ) 
Calhoun, Mary W. Morris | 

Calkins, Marshall ) 

Calkins, Adelaide A. j 
Calkins, Cheney Hosmer 


1861 

1885 

1871 

1875 

1874 

1878 

1884 

1877 

1885 
1850 
1844 

1878 
1881 
1860 
1885 
1885 
1878 
1878 
1884 
1883 

1883 

1884 
1884 
1884 
1884 
1884 
1847 
1847 
1878 
1872 


Cong., Lee. 

Hope, City. 

Cong., W. Brookfield. 


2d Cong., Amherst. 


\ 


Pilgrim, Providence. 
Olivet, City. 



Church of Scotland, Kirkwell. 
« « « 


Payson, Easthampton. 
Payson, Easthampton. 

Cong., Northampton. 

« « 


Cong., Winchester, N. H. 




1885 Immanuel, Boston Highlands. 
1885 “ « 


1883 

1864 

1870 

1864 

1879 

1879 


Pres., Thompsonville, Ct. 

Cong., Greenfield. 

Cong., Otisco, N. Y. 
Evangel Cong., Plainfield. 
2d Cong., Greenfield. 


1865 2d Cong., Holyoke. 
1865 “ « • « 


1864 1st Cong., S. Hadley. 


1864 Pres., Schenectady, N. Y. 
1874 

1858 

1872 North, City. 

1872 “ « 

1878 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


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Call, Ruhema S. (wife Amos) 

Case, Adelbert B. 

•{Chaffee, Catherine L. (w. Thomas S.) 
■{Chaffee, Fred K. 

Chamberlain, Mary W. (w. R. S.) 
Chamberlain, Grace M. 

Chandler, Amarett (w. J. M.) 
Chandler, S. F.) 

Chandler, Chloe ) 

Chandler, Addie (wife N. S.) 

Chapin, Marvin 

Chapin, Emily M. (wife Charles) 
■{•Chapin, Abijah W. > 

-{Chapin, Elizabeth H. j 
Chapin, Charles L. ) 

Chapin, Abby B. £ 

Chapin, Stephen > 

Chapin, Lucy M. ( 

Chapin, Emma S. 

Chapin, Charles 

Chapman, Mary D. Chapin (wife Dr.T.L 
Chapman, Mary E. 

Chase, Eva M. (wife O. G.) 

■{■Clapp, Durward C. ? 

•{•Clapp, Eva A. Whittemore ) 

Clark, John ) 

Clark, Mary J 
Clark, David } 

Clark, Ellen M. ) 

Clark, Lena 

f Clark, Perry Anderson 
•{•Clark, Edward F. 

-{•Clark, Marcia R. 

Clark, James Henry 
Clark, Mary Jane 
Clark, Annie Elizabeth 
Clark, Mary 
Cleeland, James | 

Cleeland, Jane A. ) 

Cleeland, Annie R. 

•{Clegg, Ellen C. 

fCloyes, Elizabeth P. (w. Chauncey) 

Cobb, AriannaP. 

fCoff ran, Mary K. (w. James) 

Code, Laura Eliza 
fColcord, John C. 

Cole, Daniel P. 


1873 

1881 1st Cong., Worcester. 

1858 Cong., Blandford. 

1874 

1870 North, City. 

1878 

1871 

1877 Howard Av. Cong., N. Haven. 

1877 “ “ “ 

1884 

1855 1st Cong., Westfield. 

1859 
1867 

1867 

1868 Cong., Warren. 

1868 “ “ 

1878 

1875 North, City. 

1877 2d Cong., Bridgeport, Ct. 

1878 
.) 1857 

1869 

1874 

1883 Cong., S. Deerfield. 

1881 

1873 Pres., Watertown, N. Y. 

1875 

1874 

1874 

1884 

1883 1st Cong., Westfield. 

1869 1st Cong., Petersham. 

1872 

1875 
1875 
1878 

1885 

1860 Pres., St. John, N. B. 

I 860 “ “ “ “ 

1874 

1872 1st Cong., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
1871 

1880 1st Cong., Morrisville, Yt. 

1847 

1878 

1883 

1874 


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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MAS&. 


Collins, Jabez ] 

1876 

Cong., Somers. 

Collins, Sarah M. f 

1876 

<( » 

Colton, Josiah C. ) 

1869 

“ Longmeadow. 

Colton, Nancy A. ) 

1869 

u “ 

Colton, Lizzie Rouene 

1878 


Colton, Alice (w. Sami.) 

1865 

Cong., W. Granville. 

Colton, Julia B. (w. Luther W.) 

1858 

Cong., Longmeadow. 

fCook, Rhoda A. 

1874 


Cooley, Betsey A. (w. Wm., Jr.) 

1846 


Cooley, Mary T. (w. C. 0.) 

1883 

Cong., West Granville. 

f Coolidge, Hannah P. Blake (wife Aug.) 

1859 


Condon, Clara E. Lyman (wife J. C.) 

1874 


Coveil, Chauncey L. ) 

1879 

Memorial, City. 

Covell, Susan E. ) 

1879 

44 44 

Coveil, Anna T. 

1879 

44 44 

Covell, Carrie Langdon 

1879 


Cowan, Lorinda (w.) 

1882 

1st Church, Enfield. 

Crane, Lizzie D. (wife Merritt) 

1885 

Pres., Taylor, Texas. 

Cross, Ann T. (wife Porter) 

1867 


Crossett, George A. 

1836 

1st Cong., Northampton. 

Daley, May F. 

1884 


Danielson, Henry M. 

1881 ’ 

Westf.Cong., Danielsonv., Ct. 

Dart, Philura (w. Edward) 

1833 


Davis, Mary 0. (wife Henry M.) 

1863 


Davis, George H. > 

1884 


Davis, Maria M. ) 

1884 


Day, Robert W. 

1876 


Denver, Ella Augusta (wife W. J.) 

1878 


Derby, Pardon H. ) 

1862 

Beneficent, Prov., R. I. 

Derby,. Ellen Booth) 

1880 

Cong., Ellington, Ct. 

Dickinson, Amelia S. (w. of Ocran) 

1835 


Dickinson, Louisa S. 

1850 

Olivet, City. 

Dickinson, Abbie C. (wife J. W.) 

1872 


Dickinson, Minnie A. 

1872 


Dickinson, Mary 0. 

1870 


Dickinson, Julia C. 

1885 


Dickman, Mary 0. 

1870 


Dikeman, Lucy L. (w. Dennis) 

1835 


Dikeinan, Lucy A. 

1856 


f Dodge, Edward Lewis 

1878 


Doten, Emma T. (wife E. 0.) 

1869 


Dowdy, Jane (wife Wm. M.) 

1882 

College Sqr. Pres., Belfast, Ire. 

Draper, Wm. P. ) 

1875 

Crombie St. Cong., Salem. 

Draper, Alice E. Newell \ 

1873 


Dumbleton, Harvey > 

1878 


Dumbleton, Lovisa H. } 

1868 



FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


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Dumbleton, Nettie II. 1873 

Dumbleton, Edward Clark 1878 

Dumbleton, George M. 1878 

fDunn, Charles Arthur 1878 

Durgan, Phebe A. 1S84 


Earle, Janette (w. Robert) 

Eastman, Mrs. Sybella W. (w. S. S.) 
Edwards, Lucinda (w.) 

Edinands, L. Jeanie (w. Leonard W.) 
Eldridge, Hiram 7 
Eldridge, Ellen M. ) 

Eldridge, Margaret (wife David) 
f Elliott, Albert W. 7 
{ Elliott, Martha L. ) 

Elliot, Gertrude Bugbee (wife E. L.) 
Ellis, Theodore W. 7 
Ellis, Maria L. ) 

Ellis, Ralph W. 7 
Ellis, Katherine A. ( 

•(•Ellsworth, Lizzie Gouch 
English, Lizzie F. (w. Benj. C.) 
English, Lena L. 

Evans, Geo. II. 7 
Evans, Augusta M. ) 

Ewer, James W. 7 
Ewer, Sarah Helen ) 

Ewer, Edna Wallace 


1880 

18S5 Hope, City. 

1883 Cong., New Ipswich, N. H. 
18S1 Cong., Ewing. 

1869 

1868 

1880 Hope, City. 

1871 Evangelical, Barre. 

1874 • 

18S4 

1SS0 1st Bapt., City. 

1880 “ 

1880 “ “ 

1S82 Park St. M. E., Chelsea. 

1874 

1874 

1884 

1S81 Evangelical, Westboro. 

1881 “ “ 

1881 

1884 

1884 


fFairman, Emily W. 

Farrar, Edwin 7 
Farrar, Louise C. ) 

Farrar, Ida F. 

Fay, Luella E. 

Fiske, Mary J. (w. D. C.) 

Fiske, Henry G. 

Flagg, Lura (w. Seth) 

Flagg, Lizzie 
Flagg, Sarah G. 

Fletcher, Morris D. 7 

Fletcher, Jennie M. Palmer ) 
Folsom, Gilman 7 
Folsom, Laura E. ) 

Foster, Minerva B. (wife Jno. M.) 
Foster, Emma E. 

Foster, Lizzie M. 

Forward, Frances L. (w«) 

Franklin, James P. 

3 


1873 

1878 

1878 

1883 

1883 
1864 
1878 
1820 
1866 
1858 
1881 
1876 
1869 
1869 
1842 
1863 
1878 
1878 

1884 


1st Cong., Northampton. 
Memorial Pres., Troy, N. Y. 

u a « “ 


Cong., Ludlow. 

Beneficent Cong., Prov., R. I. 


1st Cong., Amherst. 


Cong., Whately. 


1st Cong., So. Hadley. 
2d Cong., Holyoke. 


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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


f French, Orinda D. (wife C. B.) 

1859 

fFrench, Eva J. Hendrick (wife C. C.) 

l 1870 

f French, Arthur Wright 

1878 

f Frink, Emily A. (wife Geo. H.) 

1874 

Frissell, Dr. Seraph 

18S5 

Fuller, Lucy A. (wife Henry, Jr.) 

1S'35 

f Fuller, Lizzie C. 

1804 

Fuller, Mary L. (w. Ilenry J.) 

1809 

Fuller, Alberta Louisa 

1878 

Fuller, Mary Elvira 

1878 

Gale, Wm. Fulton 

1878 

Galpin, Allen McLean 

1871 

Gardner, Eunice 

1850 

Gardner, Mabel Colburn 

1831 

Gardner, Abby L. 

1853 

Gardner, Jessie Cameron 

1878 

Gates, Phebe A. (w. Israel) 

1873 

fGates, Fanny A. Terry (wife Eugene N.) 1S72 

Gates, Mabel M. (wife Edward R.) 

1873 

fGay, Mrs. Helen Morris (wife Wm.W.) 1SC9 

Gibbs, Kate Chapin (wife II. A.) 

1877 

Gibbs, Betsey E. (wife Azro B.) 

1809 

Gilbert, Mary A. (w.) 

1871 

Giles, John > 

1807 

Giles, Mary A. £ 

1807 

Godfrey, Jennie J. L. (wife Samuel) 

1830 

Goodhue, Chas. L. 

1809 

f Goodwin, Elenora E. 

18G4 

Gouch, Ann A. (w. Geo. F.) 

1869 

Gould, Geo. W. ) 

1883 

Gould, Nancy W. \ 

1883 

Gould, Geo. L. 

1874 

Gould, Grace E. 

1883 

Gowdy, Lucy Russell 

1803 

fGranger, Amelia W. 

1870 

Graves, Henrietta Johnson (wife Chas.) 

1S78 

Gray, James ) 

1883 

Gray, Mrs. James } 

1888 

Greenleaf, Miranda 0. (wife J. S.) 

1807 

Grossarth, Ilenry Benj. 

1878 

Grow, Jennison ) 

187G 

Grow, Frances j 

1870 


South Cong , Pittsfield. 
1st Cong., Northampton. 

Cong., Somers. 


2d Cong., Holyoke. 
Olivet, City. 


Cong., W. Brookfield. 

“ Iiarmar, Ohio. 

« « 4 < 

Ref. Prof. Dutch, New York. 
Cong., Agawam. 

“ Meriden, Ct. 

South, City. 

Memorial, City. 

4 < 44 ‘ 


2d Cong., Chicopee. 

Trinity, Aberdeen, Scotland. 
“ « 

2d Cong., Rockville, Ct. 

Cong., Collinsville, Ct. 

“ « « 


Hahn, Louisa M. 

Haile, William H. ( 
Haile, Amelia L. Chapin j 


1883 

1873 Ortho. Cong., Hinsdale, N. II. 
18<3 “ “ 4< it 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


35 


Haile, Henry C. 1SS4 

Haile, Alice 1884 

fllall, Chas. Hugh 1878 

Hall, Martha J. (wife Chas. N.) 1S74 

fllall, Willis Alva ' 1S78 

Hall, William C. 1SS4 

Ilal lock, Ellen E. (wife Chas. II.) 1807 

Ilandyside, Alexander) 187S 

llandyside, Mary S. ) 1870 

Harrington, Albert F. ) 1S67 

Harrington, Betsey A. ) 1807 

f Hastings. Geo. Lewis 1S78 

Havens, Elizabeth (wife P. V. B.) 1SG9 

f Hawley. Newton T. ) 1SG7 

f Hawley, Marion McKniglit) 1807 

Ilebbard, Abby 1863 

Hendrick, Emeline (wife P. M.) 1S67 

f Hendrick, Lydia J. 1S80 

Hill, Chas. Parker 1S78 

Hill, Fidelia P. 1880 

Hitchcock, Annie (w. Newton E ) 1878 

Ilixon, John 11. ) 1813 

llixon, Martha L. ) 1813 


Ilixon, Caroline II. Newell (wife C. W.) 1S73 
Iloadley, Emily E. Wolcott (wife G. M.) 18G8 
Ilodskins, Mary M. (wife Oren E.) 

I-Iodskins, Edward Bryant 
f Holland, Wm. J. ) 
f Holland, Clara F. £ 
f Holland, Clara Eliza 
Hollister, Mary A. (wife Gilson D.) 

Holt, Jane A. 

Holton, Charles B. 

Holton, Chas. Leonard 
Hooker, Nellie N. A. (wife Chas. P.) 
f Hopewell, Sarah W. Blake 
Hopkins, Eltliea E. (w. Wm. F.) 

Ilosmer, Jane (wife Jesse) 

Ilosmer, Edna Browning 
Howard, Sarah K. 

Ilowarth, Elizabeth (wife Wm.) 

Howe, Mary Tufts 
f Hubbard, E. M. (w. Anson) 

Hubbard, Amanda (w. Dennis) 

Hubbard, Alice Clark 
Hubbard, Elizabeth Greenwood 
Hubbard, Mary Wilson 


1871 
1S78 
18G") 
18G5 
1S78 
18GS 
1871 
1S80 
1SS1 
1881 
188 4 
1SG8 
1881 
1884 
1884 
18S2 
1879 
184G 
1884 
iS84 
1SS1 
1884 


U’d Pres., Pollockshaws,Scot. 
1st Cong., IhttHicld. 

l( t( u 


Cong., Homer, N. Y. 

South, City. 

Br’dway Cong., Norwich, Ct. 
2d Cong., Chicopee. 

1st Cong., So. Hadley Falls. 

Olivet, City. 

Trinitarian, Taunton. 

u «( 


Cong., Belchertown. 

u u 

Cong., Longmeadow. 

“ W. Brookfield. 

2d Cong., Holyoke. 

Cli. Redeemer, N. Haven, Ct. 

Cong., Agawam. 

South, City. 


36 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Hunt, Harriet A. (wife Jno. W.) 

Hunt, Julia Clarissa 

Hunt, Mrs. Eliza 

Hunt, Mary 

Hunt, Elihu T. 

Huntington, Mary F. (w. Andrew) 
Hurd, Susan F. (w.) 

Ilsley, Emma Louisa 
Irwin, Margaret VV. S. 

I vers, Mary A. (w. Theron) 

Jacobs, Jennie L. Chapin 
Janes, Jonathan E. > 

Janes, Harriet A. j 
Janes, Arthur Lyman 
Janes, Edward Lyman 
Jensen, Franz George 
Johnson, James L. > 

Johnson, Sarah II . j 
Johnson, Anna Louise 
Johnson, John L. ) 

Johnson, Charlotte A. j 

Johnson, Lottie Dinwood 

f Johnson, Addie L. Day (wife Wm.) 

Joslyn, Sarah Crossett (wife Charles) 

Judd, S. Stoddard 

J udd, Mary Bates 

Judd, Florence L. 

t J tidkins, Belle. W.JEastman (wife Chs.) 

fKaler, Jno. A. 

Keenan, William I 
Keenan, Catherine | 

Keenan, Mary 

Keenan, Kate 

Keenan, Maggie 

Kelsey, Mary M. (wife W. H.) 

Kemp, Grace L. 

Kemp, Katie A. 

Kennedy, Nancie 
Kent, Almira A. (w. John) 

Kent, Helen M. 
fKibbie, Alice F. Clark 
Kilgour, Margaret N. (wife Wm.) 
Kilgour, Mary Jane 
Kilgour, James 


1857 

1879 Cong., Sunderland. 

1885 “ Agawam. 

1885 “ “ 

1S85 “ “ 

1818 1st Ch. of Christ, Lisbon, Ct. 

1877 

1878 
1884 
1865 


1878 

1878 

1878 

1878 

1878 

1878 

1867 
186/ 
1884 
1882 
1882 
18S3 
1864 
1858 
1862 
1878 
1884 
1880 

1878 
1S78 
1881 

1879 
1881 
1884 
1884 
1884 
1884 
1882 

1868 
1S68 
1875 
1884 
1884 
1884 


Payson Cong., Easthampton. 


Reformed Dutch, New York. 
Cong , Lisbon, Ct. 

College St., New Haven, Ct. 

Greenhill Pres., Philadelphia. 


Cong., Southampton. 

Cong., Greenfield. 
Cong., Hampden. 


Cong., West Granville. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


37 


Kingsley, John C. ) 1859 

Kingsley, Frances K. ) 1867 

Kingsley, Sarah K. 1883 

Kingsley, Caroline B. 1881 

Kingsbury, Emma Baker (wife Geo. O.) 1878 
Kirkland, Miss Nancy M. 1885 

Knight, Chas. II. > 1870 

Knight, Ella May) 1881 

Knox, Harry 1874 

Ladd, Carrie M. (wife Ariel) 1873 

Ladner, Minnie E. Collins (wife Arch’d) 1874 
fLathrop, Lydia A. (w. Wells) 1837 

Law, Fre.dk, H. 1885 

f Lee, Yan Phou 1884 

Leonard, Jane (wife F. N.) 1874 

Leonard, Alice M. 1874 

Leonard, Archer F. 1874 

Leikam, Geo. H. 1884 

Leshure, Mary L. 1884 

Levalle, Lewis R. 1884 

Lewis, Henry S. ) 1877 

Lewis, Alice R. ) 1883 

f Lewis, Alice Louisa 1878 

Lewis, David 1878 

Lewis, Lottie H. (w.) 1884 

Lombard, Electa 1831 

Lombard, Edward Murray ) 1878 

Lombard, Etta Leonora ) 1878 

Lombard, Frances M. (wife Orrin) 1868 

Long, Hattie F. Clyde (wife Charles L.) 1878 
f Longley, Otis 1864 

fLongley, Albert W. 1864 

Loomis, Mrs. Laura P. 1885 

Lord, Mrs. Villroy C. (wife A. P.) 1885 

Lovering, Lila A. 1884 

Lovering, Lila D. ) 1884 

Lovering, Edward M. ) 1884 

Lyman, Warren I. ) 1864 

Lyman, Emeline E. ) 1864 

Lyon, Charles T. ) 1867 

Lyon, Ellen C. ) 1867 

Lyon, Bertha Oleana 1878 

Lyon, Harriet Newell 1883 

Macready, Susan S. (wife Jas. B.) 1874 


f Mallory, CoraN. Pyuchon(wife H. R.) 1871 
fMandell, Arthur 1877 


Cong., Waterbury, Ct. 
South, City. 


Cong., Agawam. 


Olivet, City. 

Cong., South Weymouth. 
Cal. Pres., W. Brighton, N. Y. 
1st Pres., Canton, China. 
Cong., Agawam. 


3d Cong., Middletown, Ct. 


Russell Cong., Hadley. 

South, City. . 

1st Pres., Minneapolis, Minn. 


Cong., South Wilbraham. 

Union Cong., Westford. 

2d Cong., Coventry, Ct. 
Cong., Agawam. 

1st Bap., West Springfield. 
« a « 

1st Cong., South Hadley. 

<( « <« 

Cong., Brandon, Vt. 

a a « 


38 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Marsh, Joel S. 1856 

Marsh, Charles S. 1SGG 

Marsh, Lucy T. 1881 

Marsh, Grace L. 1881 

Marsh, Rev. Loring B. > 1885 

Marsh, Emily ) 18S5 

f Martin, George E. 1872 

Mayo, Julia Billings (wife A. N.) 1SGS 

Mayott, Mary I. (wife L. II.) 18G8 

McCaskill, Katie 1S80 

fMcClester, William ' 1880 

McFadyen, Chas. II. 1884 

McIntyre, Elizabeth M. (wife James E.) 1873 
McKay, Barbara 1878 

McMasters, John 1874 


Merritt, Jennie Sliillingford(wife II. W.) 1874 
Merrill, Amos Lyman 1879 


Merrifield, Minnie Edith 
Metcalf, Martha (wife E. D.) 
t Mills, Elizabeth (w. Enos) 

Mills, Den. Fredk. ) 

Mills, Laura W. £ 
fMiner, llazen II. 

Mitschke, Emma S. 

Montague, Dwight B. ) 

Montague, S. Helen ) 

Moore, Julia M. Fuller (wife Ilenry A.) 
Moore, Henry B. > 

Moore, Kate L. \ 

Mordaunt, Win. Francis 
Morgan, Elisha ) 

Morgan, Sarah Grant } 

Morgan, Rev. J. F. > 

Morgan, II. C. ) 

Morgan, Charles 
Morris, Henry > 

Morris, Mary J 
Morris, Maria M. 

Morris, Fredk. Wm. 
f Morrison, Margaret 
Morse, Ellen II. (wife Moses G.) 

Morse, Maria Alma (w.) 

Moseley, Harvey E. ) 

Moseley, Sarah R. ) 

Mudgett, Sarah Elizabeth (w.) 
Mudgett, Clara E. 


1878 

1S77 

18G1 

1877 
1882 
1883 
1881 
1874 
1874 
1874 
1873 
1873 

1878 
1858 
1863 
1883 
1883 
1883 
1S33 
1827- 
1835 
1878 
1878 
1S67 
1878 
1880 
1880 
187G 
1881 


Cong., Hardwick. 


Cong., Berlin, Mass. 

“ Wading River, N. Y. 
E. St., South Boston. 

Cong , Somers, Ct. 


Hope, City. 

Center Pres., X. Y. 
Cong., Granby. 


Cong., Middlefield ; Mass. 
Cong., Great Bend, Pa. 
2d Cong., Longmeadow. 
“ Feeding Hills. 


North, City. 

<< « 

4th Cong., Hartford, Ct. 

West Cong., Portland, Me. 
“ « « 


College, Amherst. 


Pres., Winslow, P. Q. 
East Cong., Ware. 


North, West Haven, Ct. 

“ « U U 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


39 


Nash, Lticretia M. 

Newell, Nelson C. ) 

Newell, Helen Grant) 

Newell, Mattie Harris (wife W. C.) 
Newell, Augusta (vv. Samuel 11.) 
Newell, Isabel P. 

Newell, Addie Louise (wife Howard N. 
Netterfield, Elvira (wife W. W.) 
f Northrop, Mary Giles (wife Fred W.) 
Noyes, Mary A. 

Nutting, Alonzo > 

Nutting, Louisa C. y 
Nutting, Herbert Hooker 
Nye, Martha E. (wife Geo.) 

Olmstead, Frank P. 

Osborne, Mercy B. (w. N. H.) 

Packard, Azel Alonzo ) 

Packard, Mary Vilas } 
f Parker, Wm. B. 

Parmalee, Elmira M. (w. Laban M.) 
Patterson, James N. 

Pease, Wm. A. 

Pease, O. Edward > 

Pease, Julia Maria y 
Pease, Emma Josephine 
fPease, Hr. Edmund Morris ) 
fPease, Harriet A. Sturtevant) 
Missionaries A. B. C. F. M. 

Peckham, Louie A. 

Pelton, Lemina R (w. Wm. M.) 

Perry, Oliver II. 
f Perry, Eva Estella 
Perry, William 

Phelps, Elizabeth Cooley (w. Wm. J.) 
Phillips, Chas. W. 

Pierce, Priscilla E. 

Pierce, Lizzie Amelia (wife Geo.) 
Pierce, II. Minerva (vv. II. M.) 

Pinney, Oliver F. 

fPirnie, Florence Pomeroy (wife Geo. 
Pomeroy, Charlotte (wife Julian) 
Pomeroy, Frances Ella (wife W. H.) 
Pomeroy, Otis D. 

Pomeroy, Jessie L. 


1867 

1865 Cong., Longmendow. 

1881 1st Cong., Manchester, Ct. 

1880 Cong., Rutland, Vt. 

1865 “ Longmeadovv. 

1865 “ “ 

1S85 

1883 Grace M. E., City. 

1882 North, New Haven, Ct. 

1877 “ City. 

1831 

1864 1st Cong., W. SpYingfield. 
1878- 

1867 

1881 Cong., Windsor Locks, Ct. 
1S59 1st “ West Springfield. 

1878 
1878 

1870 Cong., Greenville, Ct. 

1869 Cong., Longmeadow. 

1SS3 1st Cong., Woodbridge, N. J. 

1566 

1567 Cong., Granby. 

1870 Bap., E. Longmeadow. 

1878 

1870 14 St. Pres., N. Y. 

1874 1st Pies., Bordentown, N. J. 

1881 

1S72 1st Cong., Morrisiana, N. Y. 

1868 Cong., Southbridge. 

1878 

187 1 Trinitarian Cong., Templet’n. 

1832 Trinity M. E., City. 

1883 

18S0 Cong., Conway. 

1878 

1855 Salem St., Worcester. 

1S63 Cong., Spencer. 

1875 

1S76 Pres., San Jose, Cal. 

1881 

1884 

1884 


40 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


fPomeroy, Alanson B. ) 
f Pomeroy, Mary Elizabeth ) 
f Porter, Herbert P. 

Pratt, Frank I. 

Priest, Maria T. 

Prouty, Caroline A. (w. Isaac W.) 
Purple, Ellen M. (wife Wm. II.) 
f Pynchon, Frances A. (w. Daniel) 


1884 Cong., N. Becket. 

1884 “ 

1807 1st Cong., Grafton, Ohio. 
1874 

1877 State Street Methodist, City. 
1S56 

1871 Cong., Conway. 

1851 Cong., Mystic Bridge, Ct. 


Rand, Mrs. Helen A. (wife J. J.) 
f Randolph, Mary E. (wife Martin V.) 
Rainger, II. Elizabeth (wife S. W.) 

Ray, Samuel C. 

Raymond, William N. 

Reed, John S. > 

Reed, Ruth II. > 

•{•Remington, Elizabeth D.(wife Jas. L.) 
Rice, Lucy A. (w. Charles W.) 

Rice, Minnie Linda 

fRice, Delphine J. (wife Fred W.) 

fRice, Sarah M. (wife Henry) 

4 Rice, Lizzie V. 
fRice, Frederick H. 

Rice, Gertrude 

Rice, Nancy W. Hill (wife A. R.) 

Rich, Henry F. 

Richards, Phebe A. (w. W. II.) 
Richards, William Losea 
Richardson, Harriet E. (w. Horace A.) 
Richardson, Mary A. 

Rickey, Margaret R. (wife James S.) 
Riggs, Mary 
Ring, Sophia H. 

Robbins, J. Augustus 
Roberts, Gertrude W. 

Roberts. Margaret (wife George) 
Rockwell, Ruth A. 

Rockwell, L. Clara 
Rogers, Edward C. > 

Rogers, Eliza B. Reynolds J 
Rogers, Julia Covell 
Rogers, Roxanna 
Rollins, Francis J. { 

Rollins, Ellen C. ) 

Rollins, Ida E. 

Rood, Sadie E. (wife N. J.) 


1885 1st Cong., Pembroke, N. H. 

1876 

1880 

1837 

1883 

1874 

1874 Trinity Methodist, City. 
1867 

1867 Trinity Methodist, City. 

1883 
1876 

1853 1st Cong., Enfield, Ct. 

1872 
1869 
1S83 

1880 Olivet, City. 

18S3 1st Cong., Ware. 

1869 1st Cong., W. Springfield. 

1875 
1864 
1874 

1874 

1884 

1873 

1875 S. and M. Cong., Boston. 

1883 

1884 
1873 

1883 
1858 
1855 

1884 
1846 
1884 
1884 
1884 
1884 


FIRST _CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


41 


Rosenberg, Hattie F. 

Ross, Ilenrv L. 

Rowland, Ellen P. 

•j-Rugg, Ella Maria (wife John B.) 
Russell, Charles Henry 
Russell, Emma Julia 

Sadler, William L. 

Sackett, Cordelia Ann (wife Heman) 

Sackett, Conant (wife E. B.) 

fSargeant, Mary M. (w. Ilenry) 
f Schaeffer, Paulina (wife Jacob) 
Schmuck, Henrietta (wife Henry M.) 
Shaw, Elisha F. 7 
Shaw, Martha B. ) 

Shaw, Fred O. 7 
Shaw, Ida R. £ 

Shepherd, Francis W. 7 
Shepherd, Adelia j 
Sherwin, Laura A. (wife of John H.) 
Sherwood, Lucy Ann (wife Jas. H.) 
Shillingford, Harry W. 7 
Shilling-ford,- Josephine W. ) 

Shipley, Joseph L. 7 
Shipley, Margaret H. ) 

Shurtleff, Sarah M. (wife R. G.) 
Sibley, Lou M. (wife E. D.) 

Simons, Charles L. 7 

Simons, Sarah E. j 

f Simons, Arabella G. (wife James R.) 

Slate, Helen 

Smith, Charles II. 7 

Smith, Elizabeth G. ) 

Smith, John M. 

Smith, Eunice Brewer (w. David P.) 

Smith, Avery J. 7 
Smith, Harriet M. } 

Smith, John E. 

Smith, Mary (wife John) 

Smith, Ellen (wife James O.) 

Smith, George F. 
fSollace, • Joseph Rowland 
Spalter, Miss A. M. 

Spear, Miss Linnie R. 

Spencer, Betsey Y. (w. C. S.) 

Spooner, John C. 7 
Spooner, Eliza J. ) 


1884 


1872 

Cong., W. Brookfield. 

1840 


1878 


1878 


1884 


1875 

Cong., Warren. 

1878 


1878 


1855 

South, City. 

1879 


1872 


1878 

1st Cong., Sturbridge. 

1878 

u u 

1884 


1884 


1871 

North, City. 

1871 

U (( 

1878 


1878 

Cong., Lisbon, Ct. 

1870 


1874 


1873 

North Av. Cong., Cambridge. 

1873 

« « (t 

1855 


1884 


1868 

Olivet, City. 

1868 

« «( 

1862 

North, New Haven, Ct. 

1881 

South, New Britain, Ct. 

1865 

Russell, Hadley. 

1871 

Cong., W. Brookfield. 

1866 

1st Pres., Boston. 

1844 


1872 

Pres. Memorial, New York. 

1872 


1874 


1874 


1878 

• 

1883 

Cong., Florence. 

1878 


1885 

Cong., Saundersville. 

1885 

North, City. 

1855 

Cong., Sunderland. 

1862 


1862 



42 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


fSpooner, Rebecca (w. W. 11 ) 

1873 

Arch St. Pres., Philadelphia. 

Stack man, Mary E. 

1882 

1st Cong., Westfield. 

Stackman, Uenry 

1884 


f Stacy, Ilenry E. > 

1809 

Cong., Huntington. 

f Stacy, Almira E. £ 

i860 

a 

Stanley, Addie Augusta (wife W. F.) 

1878 


Stanley, Emma A. 

1884 


•{•Stanton, Pamela II. (wife Frank) 

1867 


Stebbins, Nancy (w. Calvin) 

1831 


Stebbins, Lucy Bartlett 

1SG5 

Cong., Longmeadow. 

Stebbins, Mary G. Lewis 

1878 


Steele, B. Frank ) 

1S73 

1st Cong., Leavensworth, Ks. 

Steele, Emily F. ) 

1873 

« <« 

fSteisney, Kate A. 

1807 


Stephenson, Lucy (w.) 

1809 

Union Cong., Greenfield, N.II. 

f Stephenson, Margaret E. 

1876 


•{■Stevens, Charlotte R. (wife Charles) 

1803 


Stevens, Maria C. (w. Isaac) 

1876 

South, City. 

Stevens, Maria C. 

1870 

South, City. 

Stevens, Thomas E. 

1S78 

North, City. 

fStewart, John P. 

1871 

Lutheran, Philadelphia, Pa. 

fStickney, Mary De F. Newell (w’e C. E.)1878 


Stickney, Ilattie E. 

1883 


Stickney, Clara 

18S3 


fStockbridge, Elizabeth S. (wife Levi) 

1878 


fStothard, Fanny B. (wife Capt. Thos.) 

1805 


Strumwell, John ) 

1883 

Evangelical, I. O. 

Strum well, Mary ) 

1S83 


Stuart, Anna Wight (w. Herbert) 

1874 


Sullivan, Julia M. 

1868 

1st Cong., W. Springfield. 

Swetland, Elizabeth H. (wife Eli) 

1872 

1st Pres., Middlefield, N. Y. 

fSwetland, Louisa Quimby (wife E. P.) 

1877 


fSwetland, Lot Quimby 

1884 


fTaggard, Frederick Alonzo 

1876 


fTaggard, Edward J. 

1878 


Taylor, Lillie E. 

1884 


Taylor, Ilenry Delano 

1878 


Taylor, Louise R. 

1884 

1st Cong., West Springfield. 

Terry, Louisa P». (wife Jabez C.) 

1835 


Terry, Emma L. 

1864 


fThatcher, Lucy C. 

1879 

Cong., Lee. 

Thomas, Louise W. 

1884 

4th Cong., Hartford, Ct. 

•{■Thompson, Chas. Seymour ) 

1878 


{Thompson, Emma Louisa ) 

1878 

1st Cong., Bridgeport, Ct. 

•{•Tiffany, Avis M. 

1875 

Cong., Ware. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


43 


TiJeston, Augusta 18G7 

•{■Tingle, Mary L. Kingsley (wife A. K.) 1800 
Tourtelotte, Bella Charlotte (wife M. L.) Ic7'8 
Tower, Mary (w. Edward) 1SG9 

Tower, Frank \Y\ f 1874 

Tower, Winona A. ) 1874 

Townsley, Eunice A. (w. II. L.) 1SG7 

Tulley, Sarah 1856 

Tulley, Elizabeth L. 1856 

Turner, Jennie F. 18^3 

Turner, Mary C. (wife Geo. W.) 1883 

Tuttle, Pliebe Ann (vv. Lemuel) 1876 

Tuttle, Henry Augustus 1878 

Tuttle, Alice L. 1SS4 

Tyler, Mary (w.) 1S84 

Tyler, Jno. B. 7 18S4 

Tyler, Celia A. ) 1884 

•{•Tyler, Hattie Estella 1878 


Vaille, Sarah W. L. (w. II. II.) 1850 

fVaille, Thos. P. 1S04 

Van Bergen, Ann E. (vv.) 1877 

Vilas, Fannie Maynard 1883 

Vose, Mary D. (wife Gilman 0.) 1865 


Waite, Julius Edson 7 
Waite, Ella Wight ) 

Waite, Susan A. 

Walcott, Mary Ann (w. Henry) 
Walcott, Fannie E. 
f Walker, Everett W. 

Walker, Margaret 

•{■Walker, Elizabeth C. (wife W. II.) 
Walker, Francis C. 7 
Walker, Mary E. ) 
f Walker, Fanny P. (vv. Asa M.) 
Wallace, Andrew Brnbner 7 
Wallace, Madora C. Vaille ) 
f Wallace, Lucy Ann (w. Henry D.) 
•{•Ward well, Mary E. Taggard 
Ware, Addison P.7 
Ware, Sarah Bliss) 

Warner, Mary L. (wife Alfred A.) 
Warner, Walter II. 7 

Warner, Hattie J. Cooley ) 
Warriner, Elizabeth L. (w. Lewis) 
Warriner, Orpha A. (wife Jno. M.) 


1876 

1870 

1874 
1878 
1878 
1S50 
1850 
li*50 

1870 

1871 
18G0 

1870 

1872 
1842 

1875 
18G1 
1801 
1SG7 
1874 

1871 
1850 
1850 


South, City. 

1st Cong., Chicopee. 


South, City. 

ft it 


2d Cong., Westfield. 


Cong., Stafford Springs, Ct. 

tt U tt tt 

tt tt i< « 


2d Cong., Walpole. 
Cong , Ilaydenville. 
1st Cong., Westfield, 


2d Cong., Holyoke. 
North, City. 

tt tt 


North, City. 

Cong.. Belchertown. 

Olivet, City. 

Cong., Saratoga Spr’gs, N/Y. 


South, City. 


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Warriner, Stephen C. ) 1871 

Warriner, Ida M. | 1884 

Watson, Ruema C. Call (wife A. II.) 1873 
Washburn, Silvia Briggs (wife E. G.) 1878 

Webber, Joseph T. > 1857 

AYebber, Eaviuia B. ) 1857 

fAYeeks, Charles Potter 1878 

AVelch, Emma J. (wife L. T.) 1883 

AVells, Sarah A. (wife J. F.) 1885 

fAVetherill, Electa (wife Geo.) 1869 

AVlieat, AAhn. George ) 1878 

AVheat, Clara L. | 1878 

AYheelock, Alice Adell (wife C. A.) 1878 

AVheelock, Anna AV. 1880 

fAVhipple, Frank II. 1873 

AVhitcomb, Mary A. (wife C. S.) 1864 

AVhite, James AV. 1876 

AA r hite, Maria L. (w. AVm. II.) 1871 

fAVhittemore, Martha A. (w. Chas. R.) 1868 
fAVhittemore, Chas. Lewis 1872 

AVight, Emerson 1848 

AVight, Ann Eliza (w. Aaron) 1866 

AVight, Lizzie M. 1874 


Cong., AVarren. 

Cong., Monson. 

« <( 

Cong., South Norwalk, Ct. 

“ Homer, N. Y. 

St. Paul’s Epis., Holyoke. 

1st Cong., So. Hadley Falls. 

Pres., Lawton, Mich. 

1st Cong., AVest Springfield. 
Cong., Sturbridge. 


Wilcox, Mary M. (w. E. II.) 

AYildes, Arthur S. ( 

AYildes, Elizabeth F. | 
f AA r iIley, Anna A; 

AVillard, Jennie Mabel 

AVillard, Mary Roberts (wife Martin A 

AA r il liams, Albert P. 

AVilliams, Sophronia 
AVilliams, Minna (w. Peter) 

AA ; illiams, Charles Washington 
f AVilliams, Sarah (w.) 

AVilliams, Clara M. 

AVillis, Charles 

AVinans, Carrie J. R. (wife N. A.) 
fAVinchester, AVm. R. 
fAVinter, Mrs. May L. 

AVithey, May B. 

Witt, Chas. A. 

AVolcott, Edmund R. > 

AVolcott, Elizabeth B. | 

AVolcott, Lois J. 

AVood, Mary (wife Lyman) 

Wood, Samuel A. ) 

AVood, Harriet j 


1874 Memorial, City. 

1883 
18S3 
1866 
1878 
,) 1865 
1S78 

1878 2d Cong., Holyoke. 

1878 

1S78 

1870 

1883 

1884 

1867 Trinity M. E., City. 

1S84 

1885 1st Ch. of Christ, Fair Haven. 
1884 

1884 

1867 Cong., Feeding Hills. 

1867 “ “ « 

1874 

1867 North, City. 

1871 “ « 

1871 “ « 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


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Wood, Harriet S. 

1871 

North, City. 

Woods, Jonathan B.) 

1809 

Cong., Belchertown. 

Woods, Harriet N. ) 

1869 

46 46 

Worden, Hiram 

1870 

1st Cong., Westfield. 

Worthington, Matilda W. (wife S.) 

18S3 

Memorial, City. 

Wright, Mary J. 

1856 


Young, Jane Rice (wife W. H. A.) 

1851 


Young, Estella C. Nichols (wife Geo. S.) 

1878 



Within thy borders still be peace, 

And on the souls that pray for thee ! 

Thy gates forever open be ; 

And through the years thy strength increase ! 









' 























































LIST OF ALL THE MEMBERS 


OF THE 

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST IN 
SPRINGFIELD 

From the Year 1735 to the Year 1885. 


‘ * One army of the living God, 

To His command we bow ; 

Part of the host have crossed the flood, 
And part are crossing now.” 



WILLIAM PYNCHON— 1636 . 


BY THEO. W. ELLIS. 

That the First Church of Christ and the city of Springfield should 
both owe their foundation to one individual, is noteworthy ; and it 
is a matter of honest pride and grateful remembrance that this one 
man, on account of his lofty Christian character, is justly entitled to 
the lasting reverence of the church ; and likewise for his kindly 
and efficient government of the infant settlement, is equally entitled 
to the enduring regard of the city. 

The Hon. Col. William Pynchon came to America in 1630. He 
was one of the first patentees of the Colony of Massachusetts, and 
at one time treasurer of it. He was the son of John Pynchon, of 
Springfield, Writtle, Essex County, England, and grandson of 
Nicholas Pynchon, of Wales, sheriff of London in 1532. On his 
arrival in America, William Pynchon settled in Roxbury, and about 
1636 removed to this place. He selected the site of Springfield, 
brought hither his own family of three daughters and one son (John, 
then about 15 years of age), also one son-in-law, and shortly after- 
wards another son-in-law (Holyoke) was added. These, with a few 
associates, commenced the settlement of what is now known as 
Springfield. It was the day of small things, but the place grew 
steadily, and Pynchon remained until the ground had been cleared, 
houses built, defences established, the church erected (in 1646), laws 
in operation, and the community in full process of development un- 
der regular organization. In all these undertakings he was the 
originator and financial backer ; as well as the administrator of jus- 
tice for the infant colony. He was the preeminent merchant, magis- 
trate, and scholar of Springfield, and the most influential resident of 
the place during his time. All the records bring into necessary 
prominence his enterprise, energy, and capacity ; but no account of 
him can do justice to the pioneer of Springfield which fails to empha- 
size his Christian character, the tender spirit, the strict conscientious- 
ness, and the very devout piety of this Christian gentleman. The 
confidence which his neighbors reposed in his sanctified talents is ex- 
hibited in their readiness to appoint him to minister from the sacred 


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desk of the First Church of Christ. To him and to Ins children, the 
Mohawk chiefs, when asking to be treated with by his renowned 
grandson, made this noble reference : “ And as to Col. Pynclion in 
particular, they urged their acquaintance with Ins ancestors, and 
their experience of their integrity.” 

Unfortunately, as it turned out, his scholarship ran into abstruse 
and polemical theology, and having published (in 1650) his thoughts 
in a volume on the nature of redemption, justification, etc., which 
sundry of the high and mighty lords, spiritual and temporal, of 
Boston did not find to be in accord with their own opinions, he was 
at once denounced as a heretic. To be thus denounced by the mag- 
nates of the church (with the State behind them) carried weighty 
consequences in those days, as there were the severest statutes 
against “ broaching and maintaining any damnable heresy.” Mr. 
Pynchon was “ labored with,” was formally answered, and then his 
arguments were conclusively refuted by the public executioner in 
the burning of his work in the market place of Boston, while the 
General Court stripped the author of his position and dignities. 
To save himself from additional and more pressing attentions of 
this sort, he wisely concluded to put the Atlantic between himself 
and the worshipful potentates of Boston, and returning to England 
in 1652, died there in 1661. Peace to his ashes. 

Happily his family were not involved in the liabilities attaching 
to this theological treatise of 440 pages, and they inherited the virt- 
ues, exerted the influence, and wielded the authority of their 
father. And the First Church, and also the settlement of Spring- 
field, were again equally favored under the rule, devoutness, and 
bravery of his son, the “Worshipful” Major John Pynchon, who 
married Amy, daughter of Gov. Wyllys of Hartford, and, after a 
life of great usefulness, died in 1703. No better illustration of the 
Christian character of this successor can be furnished than the fol- 
lowing extract of a letter written by him immediately after the 
burning of Springfield, to his son Joseph, who happily for himself 
was then in England : “ My barns and outhousing are all burnt down 
and all my corne and hay consumed, and not anything have I left of 
food either for man or beast ; and all my mills, both corne and saw- 
mills, are burned, so that I am really reduced to graite straits.” 
But he adds : “ O dear son, how sweet is an interest in Christ 
Jesus in these distracting tymes.” 

The successors of the aforementioned servants of Christ were very 
prominent men, holding church, civil, military, and judicial offices ; 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


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and highly esteemed, not only in the First Church in Springfield, 
but throughout all this vicinity. Dr. Joseph C. Pynchon and William 
Pynchon of this city are lineal descendants of these worthies in the 
eighth generation. 

I follow them no further, however, as my only object has been 
to draw attention to these honored fathers as historic exemplars of 
the power of a living faith in Christ. It seemed hardly fitting that 
this record of the ancient church should go forth without brief refer- 
ence to these shining members of it, whose fervent piety was their 
most conspicuous characteristic, and remains the best inheritance of 
their successors and of the church. 


SAMUEL CHAPIN. 


Deacon of the First Church of Christ in Springfield, and sometimes “ carrying for- 
ward the Sabbath services ” in the absence of other supply. 

BY THE COMPILER. 

A statue commemorative of this ancient church-worthy is soon to 
embellish Court Square. The Deacon’s well-recognized Christian 
character, and the responsible offices conferred upon him by his fel- 
low citizens, justify the distinction. If the statue shall occupy the 
site lately designated in front of the First Church, it will stand on 
the spot covered by the original First Church meeting-house of 1646, 
within whose walls Deacon Samuel Chapin worshiped and officiated 
more than two and one-third centuries ago. 

The Morgan statue represents one of the early settlers of Spring- 
field with hoe in hand and musket on shoulder ; — fitting symbols of 
the hard work and soldierly vigilance required of the fathers. The 
Chapin statue (to be erected) may well represent an early settler 
equally equipped for labor and defence ; but something additional is 
necessary to clearly indicate that this noted freeman of blameless 
repute walked by faith in the invisible; was made free, not so much 
by the State as by the truth, became not only an honest toiler in 
these valley fields, but, nobler than that, “ a laborer together with 
God”; and enduring manfully the privations of a pioneer settler, 
added this crowning moral heroism that he “ endured hardship as a 
good soldier of Jesus Christ.” 



fflembersbip. 


A transcript from the “ Records of the Acts of the first 
chh In Springfield begining Jan r y 21 th 1735-6 p r me R. B reck I 

NOTE BY COMPILER. 

This earliest Record-book of the First Church in Springfield, com- 
menced by Pastor Breck, embraces all the admissions to the church, 
baptisms, marriages and deaths from 1735 to 1809, and is accurate 
and complete. The noticeable fact concerning it is that the minister 
who commenced the book in 1735, made every entry in it with his 
own hand for forty-nine years, or until 1784. It is written with care 
and distinctness, and in excellent style; and is perhaps the most ex- 
tended colonial record by a single writer which has been preserved.* 
It may be due to the descendants of those who settled the town of 
Springfield and adjacent villages, that this ancient record, exact in 
all its names and dates, should be printed entire: the following tran- 
script only furnishes the admissions to the membership of this 
Church. The few dates which follow are preliminary to this record. 

1620 Landing of the Mayflower and settlement of Plymouth. 

1635 Settlement of Springfield by emigrants from Roxbury. 

1636 Compact of the Springfield settlers May 14 th which contains this 

declaration, “ lstly Wee intend by God’s grace, as soon as we can, 
with all convenient speede to procure some Godly and faithfull Min- 
ister, with whome we propose to joyne in church covenant to walk 
in all the ways of Christ.” 

1637 “1 st Church of Christ” organized, and, in due time Revd Geo. 

Moxon secured as Pastor. 

1646 The Meeting House finished this year. 

1652 Revd Geo. Moxon dismissed at his own request. 

1661 Revd Peletiah Glover settled. 

1672 Number of qualified voters in town 71. 

1675 Springfield burned by the Indians October 5th 0 f this year: and as 
“ the minister’s house with a well-furnished library” was burned 
with the other houses, doubtless the few records of the First church 
added to the light and warmth of that occasion. 

1692 Died the Revd Peletiah Glover. 

1694 Revd Daniel Brewer settled. 


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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


1733 Died the Rev d Daniel Brewer. 

1735 The author of the following Record, Rev d Robt Breck, began his 
work. Ordained in Jan’y 1736, and in April 1736 married Eunice 
the daughter of his predecessor Rev d Dan 1 Brewer. 

“ Precious in tlife siglit of the Lord is the death of His saints. 


“A List of the Members of the 

jAN’ry 

*“ Deacon Nath 11 Mun* 

* Deacon Henry Burt & wife* 

*W m War riner & wife* 

Elizabeth & Martha Daughters of 

Wm Warriner 
*Luke Hitchcock & wife 
*DanU Parsons his wife 
*Jn<> Worthenton & wife 
Nath 11 Brewer, afterwards chosen 
Deacon 

* Joseph Williston 

* Joseph Williston, Jun r 

Luke Hitchcock 2 nd and wife* 
Josiah Chapin 

Nath 11 Mun Jun r recommended to 
Mon son 

*Eben r Stebbins 

*Jn° Hitchcock and wife* 

Eben r Morgan 
*Henry Chapin 
*Benj Chapin & wife* 

*Tlie Wife of Henry Wright 

* Widow Hannah Chapin 
*Thomas Chapin & wife 

*David Chapin & wife and Daughter 
*Jonath. Chapin & wife 
Japhet Chapin & wife 
*Abel Chapin 

David Chapin, Jun r Dismissed to 
Springfield Mountains 


First Church In Springfield In 
1735 

Elisha Chapin 

Esther, Daughter of Thomas Chapin 
Dismissed to 1 st Chh in Hadley 
*W m Saunderson 
*Cap t Merrick’s wife 

* Widow Hitchcock 

* Widow Ingersole 
*Jn° Ferry 

*Jno Harmon’s wife 
Widow Bliss 
Widow Bliss 
^Increase Sikes 
*Eben r Warriner’s wife 
‘"Joseph Ashley • 

*Simon Smith 
*Sam 11 Warner & wife 
*Benja Knowlton’s wife 
Nath 11 Hitchcock dismissed to y e 
Mountains 

*Noah Alvord's wife dismissed to y e 
Mountains 

*Cornelius Webb ; wife ” 

*Peletiah Bliss his wife 
*Coll. Wm Pynchons wife 
*Jn<> Miller’s wife 

* Widow White 

* Joseph Warriner 
*W m Bliss his wife 
*Gersliom Ferry 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


00 


Reccomended to y e 2 nd 


An Account of those Admitted to Full Communion with the First 
Church in Springfield Beginning January 27 th 1735-6 

1736 

John Stebbins Jun r M 

March 21 st Huldah Lamb Dismiss’d & Reccomended to y e first clih In 
Seabrook 
Sarah Warner 

Miriam Knowlton Reccomended to Springf’d Mountains 
Mary ye wife of Ebenezer Hitchcock 
Mercy ye wife of Increase Sikes Jun r 
Mercy y e wife of James Burt 

May 9th Mercy y e wife of Benja Warriner. Dismiss’d and Reccomended 
to Springfd Mountains 

Mercy y e wife of Aaron Parsons Dismiss’d and Reccomended 
to Springfd Mountains 

Mary ye Daughter of Deacon Burt Dismiss’d and Reccomended 
to Brimfield 

Ann y e Daughter of Deacon Mun 
chh in N. Hampton 

Sarah ye Daughter of Will m Pynchon Esq 
May 16th Mary ye Daughter of Samil Warriner being dismiss'd from ye 
chh of Northfield and reccomended to us — Since dismiss’d 
and reccomended to Springfd Mountains 
Benja Knowlton 

July 11 th Margaret y e Daughter of Will m Bliss Reccomended to the 
chh in Granville ’ 

Sarah ye Daughter of Joseph Warriner 
“ 18th Thomas Stebbins 

Hannah y e wife of Joseph Williston 

Rachel ye Daughter of Eben Lombard Dismiss’d and rec- 
comended to Springfd Mountains 
Rachel ye wife of Eben Lombard 
Sept 12 h Experience White ye Daughter of Widow White 

Desire ye Daughter of Samh Warner Dismiss’d and recco- 
mended to y e 1st chh in Middletown 
Margaret ye wife Jonth Stevenson being dismiss’d from ye 
2 nd chh in Springfield and reccomended to us 
Nov 21st Jonathan Chapin Junr 
Widow Abigail Parsons 


A List of Those W° Have Own'd the Cov 1 

[ar 28th David Jones and wife 

Jonathn Bartlet and wife 
pril 11th Jonatli n Pierce 

18th Jno Burt Junr and wife 


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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


25th 

May 20th 
July 1 st 


11 th 
18th 
25th 
Octohr 17 th 


24th 

3lst 

Nov 28th 
Decbr 26th 


Sarah Thomas 

Elizabeth Taylor 

Abigail the wife of Thomas Foot 

Samii Sikes Jun? 

Jn<> Miller Jun r 

The wife of Jn<> Crowfoot 

John Crowfoot Jun r 

Elizabeth Vanhorn 

David Warriner 

Sam 1 * Terry and wife 

Eunice y e Daughter of Jonath Chapin 

Deborah ye “ “ Thomas Chapin 

Miriam ye “ “ Jehosadah Bartlet 

The wife of Isaac Chapin 

Martha Kellogg ye Daughter of y e Widow Kellogg 
Submit Horton ye Daughter of Thomas Horton 
Dinah a negro servant to M r Marshfield 


u 


0amm<g the: ©©uenemt” 


NOTE BY THE COMPILER. 

Difficulties originating in connection with the ordinance of In- 
fant Baptism, with perhaps some admixture of political considerations, 
appear to have given rise to the so-called “ Half-way covenant.” The 
elective franchise pertained in those early days to church members 
exclusively, and church members were strictly enjoined to present 
their infant children for baptism. Both church and State needed the 
rising generation; but as many who had been baptized in infancy 
were indisposed in their riper years to unite with the church, the chil- 
dren of these persons were liable to be lost both to the church and 
the voting element — the State. Hence the bars were lowered to 
accommodate this difficulty, to secure greater numbers, and to save 
to the colonial church the descendants of Christian forefathers. 
Those, therefore, who had been baptized in infancy but who did not 
as adults become the subjects of regenerating grace,, were allowed 
and enjoined to become partial members of the church upon the sim- 
ple fact of their having understanding of the doctrines of the church 
and “ owning ” (assenting to) “ the covenant before the church.” 
After such initiation the infants in the families of half-way covenant- 
ers were, of course, to be baptized into the church; and by logical 
sequence it came to pass that Christian faith in its initial stage (in 
the absence of positive evidence to the contrary,) was presumed in 
the case of every one who l^ad been baptized in infancy. This eccle- 
siastical expedient, stoutly opposed in the beginning, was eventually 
formulated and established by a council or synod at Boston. In its 
practical working it occasioned serious trouble throughout the 
churches, and after more than a century’s trial and experience of its 
evils, the innovation was universally abandoned. The practice does 
not seem to have run to its extremest lengths in the First Church, 
nor to have occasioned such deplorable results here as were charged 
to it elsewhere; and it is pleasant to note that it appears to have de- 
clined in this body earlier than in the neighboring churches. 


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FIRST CIIURCII OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Janry 9 
12 


March 13 


June 3 


Octo 30 


Jan 9 
Mar 6 
13 
27 

Octob 30 


May 4 
Aug 3 

Decern 3 

March 29 
July 1 
Augt 12 
October 1 


1737 

Hannah ye wife of Benja Sikes 

Hannah Bartlet being reccomended to us from ye 2 nd chh in 
Springfield 

James Burt reccomended to the chh in Granville 

Thankfull Sikes widow Dismiss’d and reccomended to Somars 

Elizabeth ye wife of Henry Wright Junr 

Bathsheba Chapin ye Daughter of Thomas Chapin being dis- 
miss’d from y.e first chh in Hadley and reccomended to us 
Isaac Brewer being reccomended to us by the chh of Welling- 
ton Dismiss’d and reccomended to ye Mountains 
Hannah Chapin the wife of Abel Chapin ^ being reccomended to 
Sarah Chapin the Daughter of Thomas > us by the chh at South 
Chapin ) Hadley 

Abigail the wife of Benja Dorchester reccomended to the chh 
in Ellington 

Jemima Mun the Daughter of Deacon Mun - 
Mary the wife of Warner 

Thankfull the Daughter of Joseph Burt Reccomended to y e 
chh in ye East precinct 


Esther the wife of Dan 11 Parsons Junr 
Mary ye “ “ Joseph Stebbins 

Jonathan Chapin of Kingstown and his wife 
J oseph Stebbins 

Anna the wife of Jn© Hancocks 
Benja Horton Junr and his wife 

1738 

Aaron Hitchcock being reccomended by the chh at Westfield 
Since Dismiss’d to ye chh in Suff’d 
Charles Brewer 
Thomas Crowfoot 
Thomas Ferry 

George Pynchon 
Anna Hitchcock 

SarnU Hitchcock and wife ♦ 

Nathanael Chapin and his wife 


April 8 
June 14 
August 26 
October 4 


T 

J no Harmon 

Hannah the wife of Joseph Warriner 

Rachel the wife of Elisha Ferry being reccomended to us by the 
chh of Southington 

Mercy the wife of Thomas Horton Reccomended to ye chh in 
Houssatonnoc 

M0S “r EeCCOmended t0 y* chh * the East precinct 



FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 59 

Mar 2 
May 4 

1740 

Sam 11 Marshfield Esq 

Jedediah Bliss 

July 13 

Mary Wright reccomended to Mr Hopkins’ chh 

Benja Sikes 

Jacob Hitchcock being reccomended to us from the 2»d chh 
At Boston 

Mary the wife of Jno Horton 


Eunice Breck 

Note by Compiler: The record on the stone in the cemetery is as follows- “Mrs 
Eunice Breck the Virtuous Consort of the Revd Robert Breck and daughter of the Revel 
aniel Brewer was born May 28 A D 1707 and died Augt 12 1707, and here lies intend. 


Sept 7 
Nov 2 

Oh could we die with those yt die 

And place us in their Stead 

Then would our Spirits learn to fly 

And converse with the Dead” 

Capt Jn° Merrick 

James Warriner & His Wife 

Janry 6 
April 6th 
May 18 

Elizabeth the wife of Timothy Bliss 

Timothy Bliss 

Miriam Sikes 

Jan 4 th 

1741 

Abigail the Daughter of Jn<> Hitchcock Jun r Reccomended 


to ye chh In Brimf d 

Febry 15th Eunice -the wife of Mr Jno Norton Reccomended to ye chh 


May 10th 
Sept 6th 

In Fall Town 

Elizabeth Van Horn 

Benja Knowlton Jun r 

Hannah the wife of Jonath n Morgan 

Widow Deborah Stebbins 

Nov 1st 

Silence the Daughter of Lewt Jn<> Burt Reccomended to 
ye 2nd chh in Windsor 

Jn° Lamb Jun r 

Benja ColtOn Jun r 

George Mygate 

Abner Hitchcock 

Nath 11 Olds 

Luke Hitchcock 4th Since reccomended to the chh in Granville 
Mary the wife of Thomas Stebbins 

Elisabeth the wife of Sam 11 Marshfield 

Nov 1st 

Abigail the Daughter of Jonatli. Morgan 

Susanna Selby Reccomended to the 2 nd chh in East Had- 
dam 

Hannah the Daughter of Benja Dorchester 

Margaret the Daughter of Joseph Burt 


00 FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Dec 27th 

Gideon Morgan 

Sam 11 Chapin Jun r 

Benoni Chapin 

Miriam Hitchcock ye daughter of Jn© Hitchcock Junr 

Martha ye Daughter of Thomas Ferry Junr 

Luke Bliss and his wife Reccomended from y e 2nd chh In 
Springfield 

Abner Ely Reccomended from ye 2* d chh In Springfd Since 
Reccomended to Middletown 

Moses Bliss Reccomended from y e 3 rd chh In Springfield 

Dec 31 

Edward Chapin 

Abigail the wife of Jacob Hitchcock 

Hannah Holton 

Ann Chapin ye daughter of Sam 11 Chapin 

Mr Edward Pynchon Reccomended from ye 3rd chh In 
Springfield 

Dorcas ye wife of Obadiah Cooley Reccomended from ye 3rd 
chh In Springfield 

April 19 
July 26 

Zechariah Warner & wife 

Preserved White & wife 


Nath 11 Olds 

August 2 nd Rowland Thomas 

30 Bristol A Negro Servt of M r © Pynchon 
Octb r 18 Moses Wright & wife 

Note by Compiler: Additions this year, 68— males 23, females 45. 


Janry 3rd 

1742 

Sarah the wife of Nath 11 Chapin 

Hannah ye Daughter of Joseph Warriner Reccomended to 

March 3 rd 

the chli In S.. Hadley 

Henry Chapin Junr Dismiss’d to the l g t chh in Hartford 
Pelatiah Bliss Junr “ “ “ Suffield 

Margaret Chapin Daughter of Henry Chapin 

Maly Chapm m \ Daughters of Benja Chapin 

Catharine Warner Daughter of Sam 11 Warner 

Sarah Hitchcock “ “ David Hitchcock of Brim- 

field 

Rebecca Chapin Daughter of Jonath n Chapin Reccomended 
to the chh in Somers 

Jonathn Church Dismiss’d from L. Meadow chh Since chosen 
Deacon 

7 

Edward Bliss Dismiss’d from ye 2 nd chh In Springfd Rec- 
comended to ye chh in Western 

Esther Horton 

Jn© Chapin Jun r dismiss’d from L. Meadow chh 

Thankfull Burt the wife of Joseph Burt Dismiss’d from L. 
Meadow chh 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


61 


April 3 rd 
“ 29th 

Rachel the wife of Jedediah Bliss 

Anna the wife of Benj Chapin Jun r 

Elizabeth the Daughter of Jonath. Chapin 

Sarah the Daughter of Nath 11 Mun Jun r 

Thankfull the Daughter of Japhet Chapin 

May 16 

John Chapin & his Wife dismiss’d from v© 2 nd chh 

The Wife of Henry Chapin j In Springfd and reccom- 

The Wife of Pelatiah Hitchcock fended to us 

The Wife of Moses Warriner . . | Reccomended to the chh 

j in ye East precinct 

June 27th 

Miriam the Daughter of Dan 11 Parsons 

Mary the Daughter of Thomas Terry Junr 


August 29th j n o Hitchcock 3 rd Reccomended to the chh of ye East pre- 


Octf>r 3 rd 

cinct Springfd 

Deborah Wright the Daughter of Henry Wright 

Deborah Chapin Daughter of Thomas Chapin Reccomended 
to y e chh In 'Hatfield 

Rebeckah the Wife of Doct Jonathan Bliss Dismiss’d from 
ye 1 st chh In Windsor 

The Wife of Benja Colton 

The Wife of Abner Ely 

17th 

Mr Jn<> Worthenton Jun r Tutor of Yale College 


Jan r y 24th j n o Brooks Jun r 

31st Frank Negro Servt of Jn° Mun 
Feb r y 4th Rebekhah the Wife of Jn° Brooks 


Dec 12th 

Sam 11 Mun & Wife 

Sep 25 

1743 

M r Josiah Dwight Reccomended by ye chh of Hatfield 
Since chosen Deacon 

Miriam Chapin Reccomended by ye chh at South Hadley 

Nov 13 

Joseph Burt 

Sept yth 
Oct 23rd 

Jacob Cooley 

Aaron Stebbins 

May 6 th 

1744 

Margaret the Wife of Cornelius Jones Reccomended by ye 
2 nd chh In Springfield 


Jan r y 1 st Abigail the Wife of Gideon Prat 

April 8th George Chapin 

22nd Moses Mirick and Wife 

July 8th Benja Wright 

1745 


Feb r y 24th Jn<> Hitchcock Jun r 
Sept 5 th Luke Hitchcock 3 rd a 


62 

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 

Nov 3 rd 

Sarah Wife of Jonatlm Chapin Junr Reccomencled from ye 1st 
chh In Wallingford 

April 14th 
Sept 2nd 

Joseph Ashley & Wife 

Wm Bliss 

Jn° Hancock Jun r & Wife 

8th 

Oct 6th 

Dec 22nd 

James Warriner Jun r 

Jacob White & Wife 

Joseph Kellogg 

1746 

Janry 5th 
June 29th 

Joanna Wife of Sam 11 Brooks 

Abigail y© wife of Luke Hitchcock 3rd Reccomended to us 

Nov 2nd 

by ye chh at Kensington 

Sarah the wife of Sarnll Worthenton 

April 13 
Oct 26th 

Stephen Wright 

Sam 11 Worthenton 

1747 


Janry 2nd M r Caleb Hitchcock 


Sept 3rd 

Widow Sarah Goodman Reccomended to M r Lothrop’s chh 

Janry 4th 
June 7th 
Sept 6th 

Nov 22 
(( 

Dan* 1 Wright 

Martha Hitchcock 

Eben r Warriner & wife 

Elisha Wright 

Noah Williston 

June 26th 

1748 

Sarah the Wife of Joseph Warriner Reccomended by y e 1st 
chh in Marifield 


“ “ Hezekiah Warriner & wife 

August 28th George Wright & wife 
Oct 23rd Moses Wells 

1749 

April 23 rd Noah Williston Minister of West Haven 
Nov 5 tJl Benja Mirick 

Jan r y 29 Joseph Ferre & wife 

April 23 Ami wife of Moses Wells 
June llth Charles Colton & wife 
Dec 3rd Eliezear Chapin & wife 

Note by Compiler: “ 450 souls within the bounds of the parish ” in 1749. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


63 


1750 

April 8th Rachel the wife of Moses Bliss reccomendetl by the clih at 
L. Meadow 

June 17th Robert Hassard & his wife dismiss’d from the clih in Blan- 
ford & reccomended to us by the 2nd chh in Windsor 

July 29 th Jonath Olds and wife 

“ “ Jerusha Jones 

August 5th Sami 1 Burt and wife 
“ 12th Jonath Morgan Jun r 
Dec 23 r d Thomas Stebbins Jun r and wife 


Note by Compiler: This year a new church building was erected 60x46 with tower. 
This building stood a little east of the present church, with the entrance east— seats square 
— the small boy was accommodated in the aisles; pulpit high with sounding board. Below 
this pulpit the deacons sat facing the congregation. If any hearer became drowsy or indif 
ferent, his devout attention was speedily recalled by a gentle hint from thetithingman’s pole. 
Our gallinaceous bird on the spire of the present building (erected in 1819) is the same 
gilded chanticleer which adorned the building of 1750. This was the third church build- 
ing. 


1751 


Jamy 20th 
6 6 66 

6 6 6 6 

Mar 3rd 

July 7 th 
6 6 6 6 

6 6 6 6 


Sept 1 st 


Eben r Hitchcock 
Stephen Warriner 
Martha Old 

Mercy wife of Stejihen Warriner 
Joseph Burt 

Hannah Daughter of Benja Sikes 

Rachel wife of Gideon Morgan reccomended by ye chh at En- 
field 

Mary Daughter of Born Vanhorn 


June 23rd Jabes Hancocks and wife 


Note by Compiler: “ Inhabitants of Upper Chickabee ” desired to be set off as a par- 
ish; of the 50 petitioners (males) exactly one-half were Chapins. 


1752 

Janry 5 th Joseph Warriner 

August 16th Miriam wife of Capt Elisha Chapin 

Nov 26 th Joseph Williston 

Oct 4 Mary wife of Joseph Williston 


1753 


March 4th 
«< a 

a a 

Nov 4 ttl 


M r Jn<> Hooker Since Dismiss’d to Northampton 
James Sikes and wife 
Silence wife of Sami 1 Bliss 
Martha wife of Jonath Wright 


64 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Jan r y 14 Jonath Wright and wife 
28 W m Hancocks and wife 
“ Ruth Daughter of Deacon Jonath Church 
Feb r y 18 th Robert Wright 
April 8th Jabez Cooley 

May 20 th Abigail wife of Jabez Cooley 

August 5th Reuben Bliss and Elisabeth his wife 
Sept 2nd Medad Saunderson and Sarah his wife 


July 21 st 

ii ii 

1754 

Eben r Warner 

Sarah Worthington 

a a 

Widow Mercy Horton reccomended to us by 2nd c hh In Shef- 


field 

August 25th Joseph Ferre 

“ “ Dan 11 Burt and Margaret his wife 


Sept 8th 
Oct 13th 

i i ii 

Hannah Daughter of Jn<> Morgan 

Moses Bliss Student at Yale College (chosen Deacon) 

Mary Bond 

ii ii 

Widow Hannah Glover dismiss’d from 1st chh Hartford 

Dec 29th 

ii ii 

i . ii 

Eben r Stebbins 3 rd and Hannah his wife 

Miriam Sexton 

Benja Wait and Abigail his wife dismiss’d from L. Meadow 

May 12th 
June 30 th 

ii ii 

Josiah Hitchcock 

Jno Warner and Margaret his wife 

George Hitchcock and Hannah his wife 


Nov 17th Mercy Day 

Note by compiler: Total additions 21; males 9, females 12 

1755 

Jan r y 12th Ruth wife of Sam 11 Mears 


ii ii 

Rachel “ “ Preserved White 

ii ii 

Phoebe “ “ Thomas Stebbins Jun r 

Febry 3rd 

ii ii 

Eben r Burt and wife 

Comfort Barns 

March 2 nd 
July 17th 

John Hancock 

Hepzibah wife of Stephen Warriner reccomended by L. 
Meadow chh 

Oct 5th 

26 th 

Dec 28th 

Dan 11 Hancock and wife 

Mercy Daughter of Jonath Day 

Lois Breck * 

Janry 5th 

ii ii 

ii ii 

Sarah Brooks ) 

Vashti Brooks > Daughters of Jn° Brooks Dec d 

Mary Brooks ) 

Febry 16 

Experience Hancock 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


65 


April 20 
June 22 . 
Dec 28 

Azariah Vanhorn and wife 

Rhoda wife of Robert Saunderson 

Moses Stebbins and wife 

Febry 1 st 

1756 

Abigail wife of Capt George Pynchon reccomended by En- 
field chh 

ii ii 

a a 

Ami wife of Benajah Stevenson Junr 

Elizabeth Long 


“ 8 th Leah Daughter of Cornelius Webb 
Feb r y 22 nd Benajah Stevenson Junr 

“ “ Rhoda Daughter of Ben ja Wait 

“ 29th Sarah wife of W m Pynchon Esq 
April 25 th Capt Jn<> Burt and Mary his wife 
“• “ W m Pynchon Junr 

“ “ Mercy Daughter of Aaron Parsons 

July 4 th Bathsheba wife of Robert Harris 

“ “ Phinehas Son of Eben r Hitchcock 

August 1 st Mercy wife of Charles Colton 
Sept 5 th Widow Abigail Mun 


Nov 7th 

Sarah wife of Joseph Ferre 

Aug 15th 
Dec 19 

David Ashley 

David Bonner and wife 

1757 

May 1 st 
<< << 

July 3 rd 

Sarah wife of Sam 11 Mun 

Mary “ “ Abner Parsons 

Eunice Daughter of Capt j n o Horton 


Jan r y 2 nd Jotham Hancock and wife 

1758 

Janry 15 th Mr Ebenr Garnsey 


Janry l 
“ 15 
“ 29 
June 18 
Oct 15 
Dec 31 

Jonath Church Junr 

Jn° Fox 

Sarah wife of Jonath Church Junr 

James Warner 

George Lamb . 

Ann wife of Richard Freeman 

July 1 st 

1759 

Widow Hannah Ashley Dismiss’d from the chh of Westfield 

Augt 5 
“ 19 

to us 

Dan 11 Lombard and Jemima his wife 

Dinah Terry 

Sept 23 

Luke Bliss Junr and his wife 

5 

t 

\ ' t 


66 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, Si ASS. 


1760 


April 27th 

June 29 th 
66 66 


Augt 81 
Oct 26 

66 6 4 . 


Widow Hannah Beamont 
Ann wife of Richard Freeman 

Mary wife of Jeremiah Snow reccomended to us by y e chh'in 
the East parish 
Abigail wife of Jabez Cooley 
Eben r Morgan Jun r 
Richard Falley 


Janry 6 
Febry 10 
Nov 2 


David Cooley and wife 
Elisha Ferre Jun and wife 
Aaron Parsons Jun 


Note by Compiler: There were in 1735, 66 members— 32 males and 34 females. Re- 
ceived to full communion from 1735 to 1760, 216 members— 73 males and 143 females. 


1761 


April 26th 
Sept 6th 

Oct. 4th 
Decbr 20 


Sam.n Hitchcock & Ruth his Wife 

Phoebe Wife of Joseph Ashley Jun r recomd to us by y© chh In 
Enfd 

Edward Stebbins & Elizabeth his wife 
Timothy Bliss & Elizabeth his wife 


Janry 25th 
March 8th 
66 66 

July 18 
Augt 15 


Jeremiah Snow 

Lois Wife of Jason Hassard 

Margaret Daughter of Robert Hassard 

Zechariah Warren Jun & Dorcas his wife 

Jedediah Bliss Jun & Wife 


1762 

Jan r y 3rd Dan 1 * Brewer Breck 
“ 31 Reuben Bliss & Elizabeth his Wife 

March 7th Aaron Parsons Junr & Eunice his Wife 

Aug. 29 Phinehas Stedman reccomended to us by the 2nd chh in Winsor 

“ “ Thomas Goldthwait & Lucy his Wife reccomd to us by the 

2nd chh in Danvers 

Oct 17 Elizabeth Wife of Josiah Dwight reccomended to us by the 
first chh In Brookfield 
Decemhr 26 Jn© Burt 2 n d 


March 28 William Colton 

April 9 Stephen Horton 

June 20 Dorothy wife of W.m Colton 

Nov. 7 David Wright & Mary his Wife 


1763 

June 12th Ariel Collins & Mary hijs Wife 

26th Thomas Stebbins 1 reccomended to us by first 

Phoebe Wife of Timothy Waters.) chh in Hebron 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


67 


July 10 tli 
Sept gth 

Margaret Williston 

Moses Church & Anne his Wife 

April 11 th 

Benj a Miller & his wife 

1764 


Janry 22 nd Sarah Wife of Ebenr Hitchcock Jun 


May 6th 

Eliakim Cooley Jun reccomended to us by the 2 nd c hh in 
Springfd 

“ 13 

Mary Wife of Stephen Morgan reccomended to us by the chh 
in Brimfield 

June 24 

Mary Wife of Capt Eb. Hitchcock reccomended by the chh in 
Brimfd 

August 19 
Oct. 28 

Oliver Chapin & Lois his Wife 

Noah Malbey 

Janry 8 
April 22 
Octo 4 

Eben r Hitchcock Jun r 

Nathan Bliss & Abigail his Wife 

Mary Day 

1765 

Febry 24 
May 12 

Danii Harris & Sarah his Wife (Since chosen Deacon) 
Joshua Fuller & Mercy his Wife reccommended to us by the 


chh at Ellington in Windsor 
August 18 Elizabeth Wife of Pliinehas Hitchcock 
“ “ Stephen Hitchcock & his Wife 


Nov. 3rd 

Danii Brewer A. B. reccomended to us by M r Dagget 

March 31 
Dec 15 

Gideon Parsons & Mary his Wife 

John Mun & Hannah his Wife 

1766 


Jan r Y 26th Rachel wife of Joseph Lombard 

Feb r y 27 th Bathsheba wife of Jn<> Burt 2 nd Dismiss’d from the chh in 
Harkwich 

March 30 th Joseph Stebbins Jun r 


June 8 
“ 22 
July 6 
August 24 

Lydia Bliss 

Abiah Daughter of Josiah Chapin 

Miriam Wife of Ebenr Morgan Jun 

Elisabeth Wife of Thomas Stebbins Williston 

1767 


April 19 Joseph Warriner Jun 

July 26 Sam 11 Morgan and Abigail his Wife 

Aug. 2 Aaron Church A. B.’ 

“ 9 Lemuel Stebbins 

“ 30 Margaret Wife of Jonathan Dwight 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


68 


Sept 6 Abigail Wife of M r Moses Bliss 

“ “ Rhoda “ “ Robert Saunderson 


Augt 30 
Nov 22 


May 1 st 
June 19 


Andrew Colton & Hannah his Wife 
Simeon Dewey & Hannah his Wife 

1768 

Ruth Wife of Moses Burt 
Rebekah Wife of Edward Pynchon Esq. 


Aug* 7 Joseph Parsons and Naomi his Wife 

Note by Compiler. The parish voted to maintain preaching “ at a place called Stony 
Hill north of Chicopee River” and paid Dan 1 Brewer £4 therefor 

1769 

April 2 nd Zenas Parsons & Abigail his Wife 

“ 23 rd Mary Daughter of Doct Charles Pynchon 
May 21 st Thankfull Wife of Timothy Bliss Jun 
June 25th Israel son of Josiah Chapin 
Oct. 8 Jn° Pynchon & Lucy his Wife 


May 14 Timothy Bliss Jun 

Note by Compiler. The Meeting house repaired and painted— cost of painting £50. 
Salary of Rev d R Breck this year £76. Edward Pynchon Esq was paid “for serving as 
treasurer 10 shillings ” — 


April 29th 
July 1 st 


1770 

Joseph Abbot & Lucy his Wife recomended from Tolland 
Bathsheba Harris 


Feb 18 Mary Wife of Preserved White Jun 
August 19 Gad Bliss & Abiab his Wife 


1771 


April 14 
May 12 
Sept 15 
Dec 1 st 


May 3 rd 
Nov 1 st 
<< << 

“ 29 


(none of F C) 


Dan 11 Parsons Jun & Sarah his Wife 
John Colton & Martha his Wife 
George Bates & Jemima his Wife 
Joseph Clough & Mary his Wife 

1772 

Abner Smith A B 
Mercy Colton 
Anna Chapin 

Enoch Chapin & Miriam his wife recomended to us by the chh 
of Wilbraham 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRING FI FIT), MASS. 


69 


March 15 Jane Wright 

April 19 Elam Burt and Lois his Wife 

May 16 Solomon Brewer & Martha his Wife 

Dec 20 Jn<> Burt Jun & Mabel his Wife 

1773 

Feb r y 28th Elisabeth Gott 

* • 


Sept 5 th 
“ 12 

Oct 3 

Justus Steel and Thankfull his Wife 

Benj a Wardwell & Margaret his Wife 

Abiathar Stevenson and Olive his Wife 

April 10 
Oct 23 

1774 

Aaron Morgan & Roxana his Wife 

Judah Chapin 

Augt 21 
Oct 23 

Natb.ll Alexander 

Eunice Kellogg 

1775 

Augt 20 
Sept 3 

10 

Catharine Wife of Moses Cooley Jun 

Eben r Bliss and Anne his Wife 

Joshua Loring 

Hannah Wife of Benj a Howard 

“ 24 

Lydia Wife of W™ White 

Janry 3 

1776 

Naomi Wife of George Brewer reccomended by L. Meadow 
chh 

Feb r y 25 
May 5 

Oct 6 

Nov 3 

Joel Day and Mercy his Wife 

Hannah Widow of Jn° Munn 

Benoni Dewey and Sabia his Wife 

Jn° Horton 

May 26 
Augt 4 

Thomas Bates and Lydia his Wife 

Anne Wife of Peter Colson 


NOTE BY THE COMPILER. The population of Springfield Village this year was about 
1200 


June 29 

1777 

Gad Horton and Elizabeth his Wife 

July 6 
. Augt 10 
“ 24 

Nov. 16 

Solomon Ferre and Rhoda his Wife 

Cloe Wife of Jno Ferre 

Widow Tryphena Steel 

Edward Crandall and his Wife 


70 


FIRST CHURCH OF CURTST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Dec 27 

Augt 16 
Nov 22 


Febry 28 

June 27 
July 4 
Nov 7 


April 11 
June 6 

<< ii 

July 4 
“ 18 
Augt 8 
“ 29 

Sep* 5 
Dec 12 


Jan 2 nd 
April 2 
July 2 
“ 2 
Oct 22 

Sept 24 
Dec 24 


Janry 7 

“ 28 
Febry 4 
“ 25 

April 29 


March 25 
Sept 2 
Dec 30 


1778 

Phoebe Wife of Abijah Edson 


Eleanor widow of Abel Hancock Jun 
Polly wife of Dan 11 Prat 

1779 

Martha Wife of Capt Dan 11 l^arnb recomended to us by the 
chh in Murrayf d 

Doct Gad Stebbings and Sarah his Wife 
Asahel Cooley and Esther his Wife 

Capt Jno Morgan recomended by the 1 st chh in W. 
Springfd 

Elizabeth wife of Phinehas Hitchcock recomended by y e chh 
in Hadley 


Lucy Widow of Rix Burt 
Aaron Ferre and Nansey his Wife 
Jeduthun Saunderson and Persis his Wife 
Moses Bliss Jun and Abiah his Wife 
Elias Hitchcock and Zeruiah his Wife 
Experience Crandall 
Gershom Flagg and Editha his Wife 
James Melvin 

Luther Hitchcock and Beulah his Wife 

1780 

Eleanor Daughter of Ebenr Stebbings 
Jn<> Stedman and Hannah his wife 
David Ashley and Vashti his wife 
Miriam wife of Capt Joseph Ferre 
Margaret “ “ Eben r Stebbings 

; * 

Benja Colton and Rachel his wife 
Jonathan Gardner and Lucy his wife 

1781 

Doct Brewer and Ami his wife recomended to us from 1st c hh 
in‘W. Springfd 

Sam 11 Farley and Hannah his wife 
David Russell 

Ithamar Smith and Lucy his wife 

Abigail Daughter of Josiah Chapin 

Lois “ “ Capt Thomas Stebbings 

DanU Bliss and Mary his wife 
Stoughton Bliss and Zeruiah his wife 
Eben r Warriner Jun and his wife 



FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 71 

Janry 13 
April 21 

1782 

Abigail wife of M r Elisha Williams 

Mercy “ “ Capt Samll Burt 

Febry 10 
April 14 
July 28 
Aug 4 
Nov 3 
“ 24 

Remembrance Smith and Bathslieba his wife 

Jno Morgan Burt 

Earl Cooley and Ami his wife 

J no Stebbings and Sarah his wife 

Elisabeth wife of Wm Doyle 

Samll Babcock and Thankfull his wife 

‘ 1783 

(No full c.) 

Febry 2 
Dec r 28 

Edward Boylston and Lydia his wife 

George Blake and Huldah his wife 


Note by the Compiler. Here the handwriting of the penman who recorded all these 
admissions to the church since the year 1735 comes to an end, and is supplemented by the 
following brief but comprehensive entry: “April 23, 1784, Died the Rev d Robert Breck, 
pastor of the first church in Springfield, in the 71 st year of his age, and 49'- h of his ministry.” 
The Record is resumed with the following heading : “ Continued P r me, Bezaleel Howard ” 


“ For this God is our God forever and ever ; He will be our guide even unto death.” 


REV D . ROBERT BRECK. 


By Theo. W. Ellis. 

The author of the foregoing 1 Record was called to the pastorate 
of the First Church of Christ in Springfield in 1735, ordained in 
173C; and the most famous contest of early colonial times was 
waged over his settlement. Young, ardent, eloquent, and fearless in 
the avowal of his views, which were unusually broad and charitable, 
he proved a shining mark for the suspicion and hostility of some of 
his ministerial brethren before he was called to Springfield. The 
personal differences and bigotry of these enemies were concentrated 
in opposition to his settlement over the First Church, and reinforced 
by the apprehensions and conservatism of prominent people in 
Springfield, culminated in a fight so furious that the whole neigh- 
borhood was convulsed. Perhaps the expression of the young 
minister’s hope, “ that the benevolence of God would secure salva- 
tion to the heathen who acted up to their light,” was as offensive in 
that day as anything else which was charged against him. But, in 
addition to this, he had his own interpretation of various passages 
of Scripture, the divine decrees, etc., and evidently possessed the 
courage of his convictions. His opponents from Connecticut, uniting 
with the dissatisfied in Springfield, commenced their onslaught with 
vindictive charges; but were encountered by a candidate, who, rely- 
ing upon the church which had called him, was cool, prudent, un- 
terrified, and immovable. The history of the various incidents and 
shifting scenes of those days of excitement, and the unexpected 
denouement of the proceedings, is exceedingly dramatic; but our 
limits forbid us to go into details. We barely indicate some of them 
when we refer to the call of the church, — objections to the candidate 
by neighboring clergymen, — the historic names of Pynchon and 
Worthington in protest; — then the council in session — a star-chamber 
trial and Jonathan Edwards in the polemic battle; — the refusal to or- 
dain; — wrath of the candidate’s friends and exultation of his foes; — the 
church seeking advice from neighboring ministers and from the gen- 
eral association, which is kindly furnished and promptly rejected; — 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


73 


the second council, — the charges and counter-charges of illegality; 
— fever heat of anxiety and passion in the community, — combination 
of the opposition at home and abroad ; — resort to the courts, — 
warrant against members of the council, — warrant against Breck, 
— arrival of the sheriff, and arrest of Breck in the midst of his^ex- 
amination: — the mob for him and another mob for the council, — the 
removal of the fight and contestants to New London, — victory of 
Breck, — his triumphant return to Springfield, and finally his endorse- 
ment by the council. 

But if the young pastor was settled amid the din of conflict 
and despite the assaults of personal enemies, and for years en- 
countered the opposition of bigotry and fanaticism, his sterling and 
staying qualities, his frankness and heroism, together with his in- 
dustry and self-restraint, won for him a steadily enlarging place in 
the affections of the people, and fully vindicated the confidence 
of the church which deemed him especially fitted for the work of 
the gospel and battled to secure and defend him. His long ministry 
was spent in the enjoyment of the peace which he had honorably 
conquered, and a rounded half century of service and usefulness 
made it very plain that, in spite of early opposition, he was divinely 
ordained to minister to the First Church of Christ in Springfield. 

The monumental tablet to his memory in the cemetery is in ex- 
cellent condition. It is six feet long by three feet wide, resting on 
pillars three feet high, and is inscribed as follows: — 

“In memory of the Revd Robert Breck A M the Pastor of the Church 
of Christ in this place, who died on the 23rd day of April A D 1784 in the 
71 st year of his age, and in the 49th year of his ministry; this Monu- 
ment is erected by his affectionate and grateful Parishoners, (in addition to 
that in their breasts) to perpetuate the remembrance of his singular worth 
and long continued and faithful labors among them in the service of their 
souls. 


He tauglit us howto live ; and oh ! too high 
A price for knowledge ! taught us how to die.” 


74 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFI ELD, MASS. 


A List of the Members of the first Church in Springfield 

April 27 1785 


Note by Compiler. This day, Apl 27, 1785, Rev d Bezaleel Howard, D. D., was settled 
as pastor. Settlement £150.0.0. Yearly salary £150 0.0. 


Deacon Nath 1 Brewer 

Sarah Warner 

Wid Experience Bliss 

Sam 11 Marshfield Esq 

Charles brewer 

Wid Mary Horton 

Elizabeth Vanhorn 

Wid Miriam Bliss 

Wid Martha Ferry 

Catharine Daught r of Sam 11 Warner 

Esther Horton 

Sarah Mun * 

Wid Rebecca Bliss 

Honb 1 ® John Worthington Esq 

Sarah w. of Preserved White 

Capt James Sikes 

Wid Silence Bliss 

Cap* Joseph Ferry and wife 

Wid Hannah Nevers 

Dea Moses Bliss and wife 

Mary Bond 

Ebenezer Stebbins and wife 
Wid Ruth Mears 
Cap* Thomas Stebbins and wife 
Abigail wife of Cap* George 
Pynchon 

Benajah Stephenson 
Samuel Stebbins and wife 
W m Pynchon Esq chosen Deacon ) 
1785 } 

Mercy wife of Charles Colton 
Rhoda wife of Robert Saunderson 
Wid Rebecca Pynchon 
Zenas Parsons and wife 
Mary wife of Sam 1 Lyman Esq 
Capt Israel Chapin 
John Pynchon and wife 
M r Abner Smith (dism d ) 

Mercy Colton 

Anna Chapin 

Enoch Chapin 

Aaron Morgan and wife 

Judah Chapin 

Eben r Bliss and wife 

Naomy wife of George Brewer 

Joel Day and wife 

Whole e 


Wid Hannah Mun 
John Horton 
Gad Horton and wife 
Wid Phoebe Edson 
Mary wife of Abner Parsons 
Daniel Lombard and wife 
Mary wife of Jeremiah Snow 
Ebenezer Morgan and wife 
Wid Phoebe Ashley 
Edward Stebbins and wife 
Wid Elizabeth Bliss 
Reuben Bliss and wife 
Aaron Parsons Jun r 
Phineas Stedman 
Wid Elizabeth Dwight 
John Burt 

Ariel Collins and wife 

Moses Church and wife 

Sarah wife of Ebenezer Hitchcock 

May wife of Stephen Morgan 

Wid Mary Hitchcock 

Deacon Daniel Harris 

Stephen Hitchcock 

Rachel wife of Jos Lombard 

Joseph Stebbins 2 nd and wife 

Abiah Chapin 

Sam 1 Morgan and wife 

Lem 1 Stebbins and wife 

Margaret wife of Jonathan Dwight 

Martha wife of Dan 1 Lamb 

Doct Gad Stebbins and wife 

Asaiel Cooley and wife 

Cap* John Morgan 

Elenor Stebbins 

John Stedman and wife 

David Ashley and wife 

Doct r Brewer and wife 

Samuel Farley and wife (dism d .) 

Lois Stebbins 

Mercy wife of Cap* Sam 1 Burt 
Wid Esther Burt 
Benjamin Howard and wife 
Wid Sarah Pynchon 
Wid Anna Pynchon 
Wid Sarah Lamb 
Ruth wife of Moses Burt 
nber 113 


FIRST CHURCII OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


75 



1785 


July — 

Luther Hitchcock and wife 


August 

— Daniel Lombard 2 nd 


Oct 23 d 

Mary wife of Joseph Stebbins 


<< << 

Daniel Ashley and wife 


Nov — 

Lydia wife of Isaac Warriner 


a 

Zebina Stebbins and Mary his wife 


Dec r 

Alexander Bliss and Margaret his wife 

11 

Note 

by the Compiler. The annual expenses of the church in these days were 


about £110.0.0 ; viz., Minister’s salary £100.0.0, wood furnished him £8, sweeping meeting 
house £1.10.0, and bell ringing 12 shillings. 


Jany 
Mar 2 d 
“ 20 
April — 
“ 24 

“ 30 

Sep — 
Nov 


April 

July 

August 

Sept r 


May 

April 

May 

October 

ii 

Nov r 

Dec r 


January 
Feb 22 
April 
“ 26 
July 
August 

March 


1786 

George Brewer 

Calvin Bliss And Lucy his wife from the chh at East Windsor 

Lucinda wife of B. Howard 

Sally Dwight 

Zenas Bliss and his wife 

Polly Worthington 

Bathsheba wife of Luther Warner 

Widow Denia Bicker from the Presbt chh N, York 

Oliver Bush and his wife “ “ chh at Enfield 12 

1787 

Cloe Lombard and Lucy Stebbins 
Lois Colton 
Sarah Stebbins 
Thomas Bates 

George Bliss from the chh at Yale College 

1788 

Nancy wife of Bela Nichols from y e chh at Wethersfield 

Elizabeth Stebbins 

Josiah Hitchcock and wife 

Hannah wife of Elisha Ferree 

Lois “ “ Elam Burt 

Justin Ashley and Love his wife 

John Ashley and wife — his wife from y© chh L Medow 10 

1789 

Jonathan Dwight 

David Bonnar 2 nd and his wife 

Justin Lumbard and his wife 

Peggy Dwight 

Lois Ferrie 

Abigail Babcock 

Bethuel Hitchcock and wife 


76 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRIMO HELD, MASS 


Feb 

March 

<< 

1790 

Betsey Murphy 

John Warner and his wife 

Orpha the wife of Jabez Beaman 

Apl 18 
“ 25 
May 2 

June — 

<< 

Josiah Hitchcock Jun and his wife 

Betsey the wife of Charles Sheldon 

Eunice Bliss 

Phoebe Ashley 

Clarissa Snow 

< 6 ■ 

Margaret wife of Jonathan Dwight from D ii.awaras enn 

New Haven 

Jany 31 

Obed Lumbard and wife 

Feb 6 
“ 20 
April — 

<< 

1791 

Elam Stebbins and his wife 

Amelia Stebbins 

Pitt Bliss and his wife 

Abigail wife of W m Butler 

July 

Clarinda Colton 


Nov* Darius Wright and his wife 

(Population 1,574) 

' 1792 


January 

<< 

Oliver Collins and his wife 

Festus Bliss “ “ “ 

June 

August 

Sept r 

ii 

Paul Bliss and his wife from y© 3 rd chh in Brookfield 

Coll. Thomas Dwight and his wife 

Sabra Brown 

John Bowls and his wife recommended from the 2 nd chh in 
Lebanon 11 

January 

May 

<< 

1793 

Asenath Church 

Beulah wife of Thomas Williston 

Hannah Buckminster 

a 

Thankful wife of Diamond Colton 

June 

a 

Elisabeth “ Jus ten Bliss 

Elizabeth Belcher 

July 

i 6 

Ezra Sexton and his wife 

Hannah wife of Joseph Williston from ye Episcopalian chh 
New Haven 

May 19 
Oct 13 

Nathan Bliss Jun r and his wife 

Woolcott Russell and his wife 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


77 


Jan 

<< 

1794 

John Hooker Esq 

Elizabeth wife of Daniel Murphy 

a 

Elisabeth “ “ Jerel Warner 

Sept r 

it 

Silva “ “ DanlJl Lombard Jun r 

Sarah Lombard 

October 

a 

John Burt and his wife 

Rufus Sikes and his wife 

December 

John Stebbins and his wife 

April 

James Hunt and wife recomdd from ye ckh at Princeton 

March 18 
April 12 

it it 

1795 

Martin White and his wife 

Cap* Jacob Seargeant and his wife 

Cap* Jacob Bliss and his wife 

it it 

William Hunt and his wife 

it it 

Hannah wife of Joseph Hopkins 

it * it 

Mary Byars 

“ 26 
it it 

Hannah wife of George Bliss Esq 

Abigail Bliss 

it a 

Francies Bliss 

July 5 

May 

Sept 6 

Oct 4 
“ 18 

Nov 

James Chapman & .wife recomdd. from ye chh at Bolton 
Edward Boylston and his wife 

Moses Burt Jun and his wife 

Marey wife of James S. Dwight 

Lewis Bates and his wife 

Mary White 

August 
Sep 27 

Achsah wife of James Warner 

Clarissa Russel 


Note by the Compiler: From this date ceases altogether the admission of “ those wo 
have own’d the Covt, ” of which partial admissions, only seven entries have been made 
during the twelve years preceding. 


Feb 

March 

April 

July 

Sept 

it 

1796 

Anna wife of John Munn 

Heber Hitchcock and his wife 

Huldah wife of Plinny Cadwell 

Sopronia Chapin 

Pelatiah Bliss and his wife 

Henry Chapin 

October 

Ithamar Stebbins and his wife 

Janry 1 

it H 

1797 

Amy wife of John Foswell 

Nancy Davisson 

6 6 it ' 

Sebra Hitchcock 


78 

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 

Feb 26 
March 

44 

Mary wife of Hon John Worthington 

Daniel Bliss and his wife 

Lois Stebbins 

May 

August 

44 

Nov 

4 4 

Elisabeth wife of Charles Sheldon 

Widow Abigail Russel 

D r Joshua Frost 

Miriam Ferree 

Hannah wife of Elias Rude 

Janry 

4 4 

Feb 11 
April 

Nov 3 

4 4 4 4 

1798 • 

Dinah Sikes 

Lucy Brewer 

Lucretia wife of Horace Cooley 

Mehitabel “ “ Joseph Ferrie Jun 

Anna Ferree 

Pamela Parsons 

4 4 4 4 

Bathsheba Pynchon 

4 4 44 

Cyntha Brewer 

4 4 4 4 

Henry Frost and wife from y e chi i in Canterbury 

1799 

January 

44 

John Warner from y e 2 nd chh in Stafford 

Widow Sarah Parsons 

March 3 

44 

44 

Margarett wife of Alexander Rumril 

Mary wife of Nath 1 ! Butts from ye chh in Canterbury 

Sarah Worthington from ye chh in Hanover 

August 

4 4 

Octo 13 

44 

George Wright 

Wid Rebekah Nash 

Sarah wife of Jonathan Dwight Jun 

Elisabeth wife of Justin Lumbard 

March 2 nd 

4 4 4 4 

May 11 
July 6 

Aug* 10 
Sept 7 

4 4 4 4 

1800 

Electa Williston 

Lydia wife of Thomas Sargeant 

Dosha “ “ Jonathan Church 

Honb le Samuel Lyman 

Hannah Nevers 

Calvin Wright and his wife 

Miriam wife of Rex Burt 

4 4 44 

Phoebe “ “ Caleb Stebbins 

“ 21 

Nov 2 

4 4 4 4 

Chloe “ “ John Collins 

Miriam “ “ Uriah Ferrie 

Jerusha “ “ W” Lloyd 

“ 30 

Joseph Ferrie Jun r 

March 1 
“ 29 

1801 

Rachel White 

Nancy wife of Paul Bliss 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


79 


April 12 
May 8 

4 4 44 

Sep 7 

Nov 1 

Dec 20 

4 4 4 4 

Israel Huntington 

Mary wife of Cap 11 Israel Chapin 

Marian Willison 

Asenath wife of Caleb Ferree 

Samuel Sikes 

Abigail wife of Luther White 

Mary “ “ Zenas White 

Feb 7 

4 4 

1802 

Hubbard Bliss and his wife 

Pamela Bliss 

44 

Hannah Yants 

4 4 

John Sanderson 

28 

Solomon Warriner 


Note by Compiler : Afterwards Deacon. 
28 Naomi Kneeland 


44 

Sally Brewer 

4 4 

4 » 

Luther Russell and his wife 

Bathsheba Sanderson 

• 4 

July 11 
Octo 11 
Dec 26 

Lucy Chapin 

Nancy Gridley 

The wife of Philemon Samson 

W m Colton and his wife 

1803 

Feb 

April 

4 4 

Nov 27 

Mary wife of Martin Burt 

Dorothy and Elisabeth Colton 

Lucy wife of Jonah Hitchcock from W Springfd 
Wid Eunice Bartlett 


Note by Compiler: Revd Bezaleel Howard retired this year. 

1804 


Jan 1 

7 

May 27 
August 
Sept 

Widow Rachel Collins 

Mabel Cooley 

Uriah Ferree 

Elizabeth Gardener 

Huldah wife of Benjamin Ball 

1805 

Janry 

Jonathan Dwight Jun* 

Elizabeth wife of Jeremiah Snow 

May 20 
July 8 

Henry Brewer and wife 

Eunice wife of Quartus Stebbins 


80 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Janry 

1806 

. Wid Olive Rider 

July 

Roderic Adams 

44 

Hannah wife of Charles Bliss 

44 

Temperance wife of Gaius Bliss 

August 

Betsey Brewer 

Octob r 

Miriam wife of Sami Taylor 

4 4 

Mary wife of Roger Adams 

March 

1807 

Sophia wife of Alpheus Hall 

April 

Walter Stebbins and wife 

May 3d 

Abigail wife of Alexander Bliss 

4 4 4 4 

Charlotte wife of Eleazer Williams 

44 4 4 

Sophia Brewer 

4 4 4 4 

Elisha Bliss 

June 

John Gains and his wife 

Augt 30 

Rebecca Warner 

Sept 

Jane Peters a Negro woman 

Oct 

Jeremy Warriner 

44 

Mary Lyman 

March 

1808 

Lettice Hammond 

April 24 

Asenath wife of Asa Caswell 

44 4 4 

Margaret “ “ Lettice Hammond 

May 8 

Miriam Morgan 

Sept 11 

John Morgan and his wife 

“ 17 

Elizabeth wife of Daniel Swetland 

Nov 7 

Henry Dwight 

Additions to date, 246 


Note by Present Clerk: With this entry the admissions 
Record-book come to an end. 


to the church in the oldest 


“ So ' ve Thy people and sheep of Thy pasture 
will give Thee thanks forever: we -will 
shew forth Thy praise to all generations.” 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRIXGFIELD, MASS. 


81 


1809. 


Note by the Compiler : Revd. Sami. Osgood installed over this church Jan. 25 1809 
I he names from this date until 1854, are from the Record Book kept by him. 

A List of Members of the First Church Jany. 2G, 1809. 




S,f 


Deacon Moses Bliss. 

Wid. Silence Bliss. 

Capt. Joseph Ferre. 

Wid. Abigail Pynchon. 
Wid. Mercy Colton. 

Wid. Mary Snow. 

• Edward Stebbins. ) 
Elizabeth Stebbins. \ 

Wid. Phebe Ashley. 

Wid. of Reuben Bliss. 
Ariel Collins. 7 
Mary Collins. ) 

Moses Church. 

Anna Church. 

Joseph Stebbins. 

Elisabeth Stebbins, 

Samuel Morgan. ] 

Abigail Morgan. } 

Wid. of Samuel Stebbins. 
Wid. Rebecka Pynchon. 
Israel Chapin. 7 
Mary Chapin. ) 

John Pynchon. 

Mercy Colton. 

Aaron Morgan. ) 

Sally Morgan. £ 

Judah Chapin. 7 
Chloe Chapin. > 

Ebeneser Bliss. 

George Brewer. 7 
Mary Brewer, j" 

Wid. Mercy Day. 

Thomas Bates & 7 
Phebe Bates. > 

Wid. Vashti Charter. 
Chancy Brewer. 7 
Amy Brewer. j 

Ruth, wife of Moses 

Luther Hitchcock. ) 

Amy Hitchcock. > 
Daniel Lombard. ) 

Sylvia Lombard. ) 

Daniel Ashley. 7 
Sally Ashley, ( 


Wid. Lydia Warriner. 

Zebina Stebbins. 7 
Mary Stebbins. > 

Alexander Bliss. 

Calvin Bliss. ) 

Lucy Bliss. £ 

Rev. Beza. Howard. ) 

Prudence Howard. > 

John Hooker. > 

Sally Hooker. > 

Zenas Bliss. 7 
Mary Bliss. > 

Bathsheba, wife of Luther Warne. 
Wid. Denia Bicker. 

Wid. Lois Stebbins. 

George Bliss. 

Wid. Nancy Nickols. 

Elizabeth Stebbins. 

Josiah Hitchcoek. > 

Lucy Hitchcock. ) 

Justin Ashley. 

Love Ashley. > 

Jonathan Dwight. > 

Hannah Dwight. > 

David Bonnar. ) 

Abigail Bonnar. | 

Justin Lombard. | 

Elizabeth Lombard. ^ 

Wid. Abigail Gardner. 

Betsey, wife of John Stevenson. 
Orpha, wife of A. Bartlett. 

Josiah Hitchcock, Jr. ) 

Huldah Hitchcock. \ 

Elizabeth, wife of Charles Sheldon. 
Wid. Eunice Marble. 

Elam Stebbins. 


Ruth Stebbins. 

Wid. Ruth Hitchcock. 

Oliver Collins. 

Pitt Bliss. | 

Elizabeth Bliss- > 

Abigail, wife of Wm. Butler. 
Darius Wright. 7 
Polly Wright. > 


82 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Festus Bliss. } 

Mary Bliss. ) 

Paul Bliss. > 

Nancy Bliss. } 

Thomas Dwiglit. > 

Hannah Dwight. J 
Sabra, wife of Micah Smith. 
Thomas Williston. > 

Beulah Williston. ) 

Zenas Parsons. 

Wid. Thankful Colton. 

Wid. Elizabeth Bliss. 

Elizabeth, wife of Moses Stebbins. 
Widow Elizabeth Murphy. 
Elizabeth, wife of Gerald Warner. 
Joshua Frost. ) 

Sally Frost. ) 

John Burt. ) 

Chloe Burt. ) 

Rufus Sykes. ) 

Azubah Sykes. ) 

John Stebbins. } 

Hannah Stebbins. > 

Martin White. ) 

Polly White. | 

Jacob Bliss. > 

Mary Bliss. > 

Hannah, wife of Jo. Hopkins. 

Wid. Mary Smith. 

Abigail, wife of Wm.-G. 

Edward Boylston. 

Lydia Boylston. 

Moses Burt. 

Mary Burt. 

Mary, wife of 

Lewis Bates. > 

Nancy Bates. ) 

Mary White. 

Heber Hitchcock. | 

Lois Hitchcock. ) 

Pelatiah Bliss. ) 

Polly Bliss. | 

Ithemer Stebbins. ) 

Debby Stebbins. > 

Henry Chapin. 

Huldah, wife of Pliny Cad well, 

Amy, wife of John Foswill. 


Nancy, wife of Eli Bates. 

Wid. Mary Worthington. 

Daniel Bliss. ) 

Mary Bliss, j 

Abigail, wife of Isaac Bartlett. 
Merriam Ferree. 

Joseph Ferree, Jr. ) 

Mehitable Terry. | 

nna Ferree. 

ela Parsons, 

Warner. 

1 Parsons. 

Margaret, wife of Alex. Rumril. 
Rebecca Nash. 

Jonathan Dwight, Jr. 1 
Sarah Dwight. ) 

Electa Williston. 

Lydia, wife of Thomas Sargent. 
Hannah Nevers. 

Henry Frost. 

Calvin Wright. ) 

Lois Wright. f 
Merriam, wife of Rex Burt. 
Phebe, wife of Caleb Stebbins. 
Chloe, wife of John Collins. 
Merriam, wife of Uriah Ferre. 
Jerusha, wife Wm. Lloyd. 

Rachel White. 

Mary Ann Williston. 

Asenath, wife of Caleb Ferree. 
Samuel Sykes. 

Abigail, wife of Luther White. 
Wid. Mary White. 

Hubbard Bliss. ) 

Emily Bliss. | 

Pamela, wife of Silas Searle. 

Polly Edson. 

Harriet Bliss. 

Mary Snow. 

Solomon Warriner. 

Naomi Kneland. 

Sally Brewer. 

Lucy Chapin. 

Nancy Gridley. 

Mary, wife of Philemon Sampson. 
Wm. Colton. ) 

Elizabeth Colton, f 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


83 


Mary, wife of Martin Burt. 
Ebenezer Morgan. ) 

Sarah Morgan. j 
Dorothy Colton. 

Elizabeth Colton. 

Wid. Rachel Collins. 

Mabel Cooley. 

Uriah Ferre, Jr. 

Elizabeth Gardner. 

Huldali, wife of Benj. Ball. 
Elizabeth, wife of Jer. Snow. 
Henry Brewer. > 

Lucy Brewer. > 

Eunice, wife of Quartus Stebbins. 
Wid. Olive Rider. 

Hannah, wife of Charles Bliss. 
Temperance, wife of Gaius Bliss. 
Betsey Brewer. 

Merriam, wife of Sami. Taylor. 
Sophia, wife of Alpheus Hall. 
Walter Stebbins. > 

Catharine Stebbins. ) 


Charlott, wife of Eleaz. Williams. 
Sophia Brewer. 

George Wright. 

Elisha Bliss. 

John Gains. > 

Patty Gains. J 
Rebeckah Warner. 

Jane Peters. 

Jeremy Warriner. 

Mary Lyman. 

Asenath, wife of Asa Caswell. 
Merriam Morgan. 

Jona. Morgan. 

Ruth Morgan. 

Elizabeth, w. of Danl. Sweatland. 
Henry Dwight. 

David Ames. } 

Rebecca Ames, j 
Jeduthan Sanderson. > 

Sarah Sanderson. \ 


Note by Compiler: The bottom of the pages of this record has been frayed off by con- 
stant use and two names are gone. If any names (especially given ones) seem carelessly 
spelled it is sufficient to state that the record has been closely followed; and it may be 
added that in former times many persons, both in this country and in England, spelled their 
own names with serene contempt for usage or in blissful ignorance of it; and, indeed, usage 
wasn’t very well established any way. 


1809. 


List of Persons admitted to the Church by S. Osgood. 


March 5. 
April 7. 

“ 21. 
May — 

“ 7. 

“ 7. 
June 3. 

i 6 t • 


Debby Stebbins. 

Benja. Corey. 

Ann, w. of Wm. Ball. 

Mary, wife of Edm. Dwight, from the West Church, Boston. 
Doct. Wm. Sheldon. ) 

Eunice Sheldon. j" 

Ann, wife of Luther Sage, from the church in Bolton. 

Mary S. Osgood, from the church in Conway. 


Note by Compiler: Wife of the pastor. Born in Fryeburg, Me., June 12, 1748. 
Died June 30, 1871. A member of the First Church for sixty-two years. 


“ 21. Abigail, wife of George Bliss. 
August 13. Frances, wife of John Warner. 
20. Eliza, wife of John Lloyd. 


84 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


1810. 


Feb. 18. 

Azariah Van horn. 

March 24. 

Mary, wife of Plinny Cad 
Wethersfield. 

April 8. 

Phila, wife of Wm. Bates. 
Henry Kirkham. ) 
Charlott Kirkham. ) 

June 24. 

Lyman Wood. 

Sept. 2. 

Widow Amy Cooley. 

Widow Eliza Parsons. 

1811. 

Jan. 5. 

Mary Bliss. 

ii 6 ( 

Elisabeth Bliss. 

Feb. 17. 

Sophia Bliss. 

Alfred Warriner. 

1 

Seth Bliss. 


Franklin White. 

Elizabeth Collins. 

Rhoda, wife of Solo. Ferre. 
Edward Collins. ) 

Mary Collins. } 

Daniel Bontecou. 

Note by Compiler: Elected deacon, 1833. 

• 

Persis White. 

24. 

Moses Burt. 

March 7. 

Sophia Ferre. 

April 21. 

Caroline Bliss. 

June 30. 

Alfred Burt. 

Batlislieba Bliss. 

July 28. 

Wm. Bates. 

Aug. 11. 

Widow Elizabeth Stevenson. 

Dec. — 

Mary, wife of Jos. Miller. 


from the Third Church in 


Note by Com filer: This year the Baptists organized a church with eleven members- 
the “ First Baptist.” 

Note by Compiler: Dr. Osgood preached, March 31, a long and able discourse in be- 
half of missions, and in refutation of prevalent objections. 


J ciU . ij . 

June 14. 
Aug. 23. 
Sept. 6. 
Oct. 5. 


1812. 

Ann Stebbins. 

Sally Prince, from the ohurch in Williamsburg! 

Cornelia, wife of Roswell Lombard. 

Mary, wife of John Chaffee, from the church in Windsor 
Horace Lombard. 

Catharine Lombard. 

Harriet Chapin. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


85 


Sarah Chapin. 

Abigail Chapin. 

Lucinda Chapin. 

Mary Ames. 

Rebecca Ames. 

Nov. 1. Mary S. Dwight. 

22. Erastus C. Baker, ) , , u . . . .. 

t-, . - from the church in Pelham. 

Esther Baker, \ 

Dc. 6. Harvey Chapin, from the church in Hartford. 17. 

27. Francis Bliss. 

Note by Compiler: The record of excommunications up till this year is very small, 
but Dr. Osgood did not shrink from this decisive method of church purification. Three of 
the foregoing were excluded, five of 1816, and others before and after. 


1813. 

May 2. Hannah Willner. 

Lucinda Orne. 

Nov. 7. Solomon Ferre. 

28. Esther, wife of Wm, Pynclion, from the church in Greenfield. 


1814. 

Feb. 20. Mrs. Lucy Walkley. 

April 17. Harriet Jones. 

May 1. George Colton. 

Aug. 21. Joseph Ashley. 

Nov. 2. Levi Jones. > 

“ Mary Jones. ) 

“ Nancy, wife of James Russell. 

“ Sarah, wife of David Orcutt. 12. 

Note by Compiler: Year of great drouth in this vicinity. Dr. Osgood preached 
September 8, from Amos 4:7-8. 


1815. 

Jan. 29. James Russell. 

Lovisa Russell. 

Harriet, wife of Oliver Sexton. 

Achsah, wife of David Simons. 

July 2. John Ingeisoll, ) from the c ] mrc } 1 Q f Westfield. 

Elizabeth Ingersoll, ) 

Sept. 3. Susan, wife of Josha. Childs. 

Nov. 5. Sally Hooker, wife of Jona. Tajloi. 

Dec. 31. Simeon Jones. 

“ Mary Chapin. 

Aurelia Drake. 

Lucretia Bliss. 

Lovina Stebbins. 

Elizabeth Stebbins. 


86 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Emily Stebbins. 

Harriet Rumrill. 

Eliza Bliss. 

Mary Richards. 

Note by Compiler: The Methodists organized a church this year with eleven mem 


bers. 


March 3. 

1816. 

Roger Adams. 

Fla via Burt. 

Almira Sykes. 

Charlott Ames. 

April 21. 
28. 

May 5. 

George Frost. 

Hannah, wife of Solomon Hatch. 

Henry Bliss. ) 

Hannah Bliss. ) 

Plinny Bartlett. ) 

Lucy Bartlett. > 

Harvey Blake. ) 

Lucinda Blake. > 

Richard Walkley. 

Abigail, wife of Jacob Cooley. 

Nancy Lombard. 

Charlott Lombard. 

Maria Lombard. 

Nancy Dickman. 

Ascenath Dickman. 

Martha, w. of Eldad Stebbins. 

Susan, w. of David Lenard. 

John Wood, 2nd. 

Nancy Witty. 

Parmenas King. 

Laura King. 

Francis Burt. 

Horace Richardson. 

Rex Burt. 

May 5. 

of Benj. More. 

Harvey Sanderson. 

Dolly, w. of Joseph Lombard. 

Rebecca, w. of John Newbury. 

Hannah, w. of Wm. Rogers. 

Emily, w. of Thos. Rogers. 

Benjamin Bisby. 

Wm. Moseley. > 

July 7. 

Jemima Moseley. j 

Lucinda, w. of Oliver Collins. 

Lydia, w. of Sylvester Clark. 

Huldah Ball. 




FIRST CIIURCH OF CHRIST, SPRING FI ET.D, MASS 


Fanny Holbrook. 

William Warner. 

Huldah Flint. 

Laura, w. of JosephCarew. 

Sep. 1 . Moses Bliss. ") 

Mary Bliss. \ 

Sally, w. of Nathan M. Wood. 

Phebe, w. of Col. R. Lee. 

Thomas Sargent. 

Joseph Lombard. 

Nov. 3. Jacob Perkins. > 

Sally Perkins. ) 

Samuel Chandler. > 

Sally Chandler. > 

Clarissa, w. of Adonijah Foot. 

Valorus R. Paine. 

Theodore Warriner. 

Rachel Warriner. 

Mary Bliss. 59 . 

1817. 


May 3. 

Jonas Coolidge. ) 

Lois Coolidge. ) 

Joel Miller. 

Nov. 2. 

, Margret Dwight. 

Elizabeth Whitney. 

Dec. 8 . 

Oliver B. Morris. 

Lucy Crocker. 

1818. 

May 3. 

John Wood. > 

Sally Wood. \ 

June 21. 

Mary Dwight. 

July 5. 

Emily Billings. 

John Wright. 

Sep. 6 . 

Deborah Belcher. 

Sarah, w. of Phinehas Stedman. 

Sep. 6 . 

Lucretia, w. of George Colton. 
Sally, w. of Josiah Bliss. 


Note by Compilek: The Sabbath-school was organized this year. 


1819. 

Note by Compiler: Preaching services held this year on week days by I)r. Osgood. 
Mar. 7. Rebecca, w. of Timothy Cooley. 

Sarah, w. of Francis Eliot. 

April 25. Betsey, wife of Cyrus Foot. 


88 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Ascenath, wife of Asliur Hitchcock. 

Rebekak, wife of Josua Crosby. 

Margret, of Solomon Ferre, Jr. 

Cyrus Newel. 

Allen Look. 

Joshua Crosby, from the ch. in Hawley. 

Aug. 25. Dr. Jona. Sparhawk, ) from the ch in IIal . tford . 

Clarissa Sparhawk, ) 

Sep. 5. Sally, wife of Benja. Belcher. 

Ascenath, wife of Friend Hamlet. 

Esther, wife of Silas Potter. 

Henry Comstock. ) 

Lucy Comstock. ) 

Jonas Butterfield. > 

Ann Butterfield. > 

Daniel Field. > 

Sally Field. \ 

Erastus Hitchcock. 

Polly Hitchcock. 

Zebina Walker. 

Ruth Stebbins. 

Fanny Crocker. 

Stephen Collar. 

Rachel, wife of Asaliel Parsons. 

Harriet, “ “ Otis Mclnvey. 

Resign, “ “ Timo. Murphey. 

Ziba Stevens, ) „ . . ~ 

XT from ch. in Somers. 

Nancy Stevens, ) 

Charles Wood, > _ , . 0 

tty \ v from ch: in Somers. 

Minerva Wood, ) 

John B. Kirkham, from the ch. in Virgenes, Vt. 
Samuel Kilbon, from ch. in N. Wilbraham. 

Nov. 7. Wife of Zebina Walker. 

Lucinda, wife of Henry Woodman. 

Lucy, wife of Albert Jones. 

Oliver Baker, ) from ch iu Ve rnon, Con. 

Laura Baker. ) 


i)o. 


Note by Compiler: Jonathan Dwight and others, Aug. 27th, of this year, requested 
certif’s of regular standing and recommendation in order to form a separate, or third 
church, and without receiving such letters, on Oct. 19, organized and became the body now 
known as the * Church of the Unity.’ The present meeting house of the First Church being 
the fourth Church structure on nearly the same site was finished this year, and dedicated 
Augt. 19. Total additions this year 51. 


■ 1820. 

Jan. 8. Emily, wife of Seth Childs. 

Mar. 5. Electa Ingersol. 

Lura Sampson. 

Abigail, wife of Thomas Dale, from the ch. in Noitkampton. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRING FIELD, MASS. 


May 7. 

Hannah, wife of Wm. Cooley, Jr. 

Betsey, wife of J. B. Kirkham. 

Eunice Brewer. 

Emma Osborn. 

Harriet Osborn. 

Sarah, wife of Eben Bliss. 

‘wife of Obed Lombard. 

July 2. 

Heman Cooley, ) from the ch in Granb 

Mary Cooley, > 

Sep. 3. 

Hezekiah Loomis. 

Ruth Loomis. 

Nancy Burnet. 

Nov. 5. 

Eli Stephenson. 

Deidamia Griswold. 

Clarissa Griswold. 

Cynthia, wife of Chester Cooley. 

Jacob Yance. 22. 

1821. 

Feb. 4. 

Alvah Whitmarsh. ) 

Lydia Whitmarsh. ) 

Plinny Dickinson. 

July 1. 

Margret Bliss. 

Aug. 19. 

Israel E. Trask, ) f rom the ch. in Brimfield. 

Elizabeth Trask, > 

Laura, wife of Horace Lee, from the ch. in Northampton, 

Oct- 28. 

Fla via, “ “ Clark Hooker, Hadley. 

Nov. 4. 

Lydia, “ “ Plinny Chapin, Ellington. 9. 

1822. 

Jan. 6. 

Ulrica, wife of Erastus Chapin, Chicopee. 

March 4. 

Melina Stebbins. 

May 5. 

• Abigail C. Bliss. 

Mary, wife of John Avery. 


Sybil Bontecou. 

Persis, wife of Eliel Amadon, South Wilbraham. 


Jllly g “ “ Enoch Badger. 

Semantha Stedman. 

James Chapin, Granby, Mass. 

Salina Whitmore. 

Ascenath Stebbins. 

Harvey Bliss, ) Putney> V t. 

Abigail Bliss, ) 

Celina, wife of Cyrus Newel, South Wilbraham. 
Lucy, “ “ Henry Chapin, Hadley. 

Samuel Moseley, Hampton C. 


Aug. 25, 
Sep. 1. 

Oct. 7. 

Oct. 7. 

Nov. 3. 


90 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Dec. 29. Mary, wife of Jos. Winship. 

Rebekah Winship 
Mary Bliss. 

Sarah L. King. 29. 

Note by Compiler: This year the 44 Standing Committee ” became an institution of 
this church, for attending to applications for admission. 


1823. 


May 3. 


July 6 


Aug. 24. 


Sep. 3. 
Nov. 3. 


Polly Colson. 

Allice, wife of John Wood, 2nd. 

Marvin Welman. 

Franklin Bliss, Onondaga, N. Y. 

Annis, wife of J. C. Stebbins, Brimfield. 

Caroline, wife of Oliver Warner, Northampton. 

Betsey, “ “ Hezekiah Wheeler. 

Hannah, “ “ Joseph Lombard, Jr. 

Eunice, “ “ Roger Adams, Boston. 

Harriet, “ “ James Brewer, Enfield. 

Roxanna, “ “ Stephen Warren, Leonox. 

Caroline Taylor, Somers, Conn. 

Cap. Luther Colton, > 

Maria Colton, f Longmeadow. 

Jonathan Winslow, Worcester. 

Amy, wife of Reuben Wood, from 2nd ch. in East longmeadow. 
Susan, wife. of Joseph Ashley, from Longmeadow. 

Julia Ann, wife of Charles Stevens, N. Wilbraham. 

Charles Burnam. 

Charles Goodwin. 

Wid. Hannah Russell. 

John Kilbon. 22. 


1824. 

March 7. Elijah Bliss. 

Jerusha Clark. 

wife of Eli Stevenson. 

Pamel, “ “ Moses Hanbert. 

Boardman Hubbard, 


j- Middletown. 


Olive Hubbard, 

Note by Compiler: B. Hubbard elected deacon Apr. 6, 1826. 

Electa, wife of Henry Fuller, West Springfield. 
Thomas M. Hunt, Northampton. 

May 2. Galen Ames. 

Bathsheba Chapin. 

Lucretia Davis, Worthington. 


Augt. 22 


Eli Thorp, 
Thorp, 


Westfield. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


91 


Sep. 3. Lucy Kirkham. 

Sophronia Jones. 

Lois Russel. 

Melinda Stebbins. 

, wife of Charles Wood. 

Sept. 3. Anna, wife of Ebenezer Hyde, Ellington, Con. 

Lucy C., wife of Ebenr. Hyde, Jr., “ 

Nov. 7. Amelia, “ “ Whitfield Chapin. 

Esther Strong, from ch. in Northampton. 
Philip Wilcox, “ “ “ Berlin, ConD. 

Sophronia Cook, from ch. in Berlin, Conn. 
Lucy, wife of Henry Stebbins, ^Westfield. 25. 


1825. 

Feb. 27. Caroline, wife of W. H. Bowdoin, Monson. 

Elijah Fisher, Independent ch., Middletown. 

Naomi, wife of Wm. Grant, ch. Northampton. 

Wid. Pamela Bates, ch. Longmeadow. 

Mary Parker. 

Nov. 6. Stephen Hitchcock, > ch - n Ches ter. 

Lucy Hitchcock, > 

Samuel Walker, ch. in Belchertown. 8. 

Mar. 5. Sally, wife of Thos. M. Hunt, Northampton. 

Cynthia, wife, of Rufus Brown, Manlius, N. Y. 

Note by Compiler: The last two names probably belong to March 5, 1826. 


1826. 

May 7. Fredrick A. Packard. > 

Elizabeth Packard. > 

Luther Bliss. ) 

Rebekah Bliss. ) 

Ann, wife of Wm. Childs. 

July 2. Edwin Pitkin. > 

Octavia Pitkin. \ 

Samuel Taylor. 

Walter H. Bowdoin. 

Abigail, wife of Rufus Rice. 
Aurelia, “ “ Sami. McNary. 

Henry Brewer, Jr. 

Almira Colton. 

Henry Rogers. 

Caroline Shepherd. 

Mary Shepherd. 

Mary, wife of Lewis Briggs. 
Rufus Brown. 

Henry L. Bunker. 

Sprowell Deane. j 
Clarissa Deane, f 


92 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Achsah Bliss. 

Abner Crane. 

f 

Lucinda Hitchcock. 

Sophia, wife of Zimri Richmond. 

Edmund Rowland, ) Union village, N. Y. 

Sarah Rowland, \ 

Hannah, wife of H. L. Bunker, Nantucket. 

Sept. 3. Roswell Lombard. 

Charles Blackman. ) 

Clarissa Blackman. ) 

Lemira, wife of Edward Bliss. 

Sarah, “ “ Charles Eliot. 

Nancy Colton. 

Hannah Porter. 

Caesar Scott (col’d man). 

24. Plicebe, wife of Otis Chapin, Durham. Ct. 

Sarah, “ “ Sami. Eastman, Hardwick. 

Nov. 5. Lucy Ferre. 

Servia Ferre. 

Emily Bliss. 51. 372. 

Note by Compile it: From this year all charges which might involve disciplinary 
measures in regard to any member, were referred to the *• Standing Com.” This year four 
missionaries to foreign fields were ordained to their work in this church, and Rufus Ander- 
son, the veteran sec’y of the “ American Board,” was ordained to the ministry at the same 
time. Additions 51. 


1827. 


Jan. 7. Miss Jemima Munu. 
Mary Rumrill. 

Arrabella Stebbins. 
Harriet Stebbins. 

Mary Wright. 

Eliza Woodruff. 

Celia Bliss. 

Lucy Brewer. 

Charlotte Sampson. 
Harriet Sampson. 
Rebekah Sacket. 
Emeline Landpheare. 
Harriet Eastman. 
Merania Miller. 

Stephen Sanderson. 
Wm. Church Warriner. 
Israel C. Warriner. 
Henry Warriner. 

Wm. W. Lee. 

Isaac Bos worth. 

Margret Clark. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Chester GoTham. 
Henry Woodman, Jr. 
John Blodget. 

Mary Ann Rice. 

Seth Hunt. 

Wid. Maria Shaw. 
Mary Shaw. 

Julia Bliss. 

Amanda Smith. 
Vienna Simonds. 
Epaphras Buckland. i 


Buckland. j 

Maria Dale. 

Sarah Perkins. 

Linus Hubbard. 

Chancy Colton. 

Roswell C. Jerome. 

Lovina Carlile. 

Isabella, wife of George Callender. 

Relief, “ “ Eli More. 

Barnabas Stebbins. 

Jerusha, wife of Merick Bates, 1st ch. West Springfield. 
Eliza, “ S. Sturges, ch. Lee. 

Wid. Mary Alvord, 1st ch. Windsor, Con. 

Betsey Williston. 

Mary Ingersoll. 

Betsey Lloyd. 

Jerusha Lloyd. 

Susan Lombard. 

Deniah Lombard. 

Delia Stebbins. 

Abigail B. Osgood. 

Elizabeth Osgood. 

Sophia Colton. 

Melissa Smith. 

Abigail Tucker. 

Frances, wife of Ebenr. Russel. 

Francis Russel, 2nd. 

Sally Pynchon. 

Mary Child. 

Caroline Searle. 

Charlotte, wife of Elijah Allen. 

Oliver Cooley. 

Franklin S. Foot. 

Warren Prior. 

James Brewer, 2nd. 

Marshall B. Blake. 

Mary Warriner. 



94 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Thomas Bond, } 


Jemima Bond, ) 
Horace Jerome, 1 
Jerome, } 


y from West Brookfield. 


New Haven. 


Naomi, wife of Thaddeus Ferre, N. Wilbraham. 

Delia Chapin, Medfiela. 

Hervey Sanderson, Chester. 

Sep. 2. David S. Day. 

Spencer Judd, ) T , , 

ElizaS. Judd,| Northampt ° n - 

Elizabeth, wife of Edmund Palmer, West Springfield. 
Thomas I. Shepherd, Enfield, Mass. 

Nov. 4. Loisa Kingsbury. 

Harriet Lusk. 83. 

Additions, 83. 


1828. 

Jan. 6. Cyrus Moody, ) . . T „ 

> ch. m Ludlow. 

Moody, ) 

Betsey, wife of Alva Cooley, Somers. 

Charlott, “ “ Wm. Ferre, Northampton. 

Lynda, “ “ Chester Sexton, N. Wilbraham. 

Edwin Booth , ) . . T , 

V ch. m Longmeadow. 

Booth, > 

Mar. 2. Otis Lombard. 

May 4. Charles Wyman. 

July 5. Benjn. R. Crane, > Berlin, Conn. 

Lucy Crane, > Middletown. 

Robert G. Huntington. ) _ .. , 

T . TT , y Tolland, Con. 

Lectana Huntington, ) 


Rubie H. Dart, 


N. Wilbraham. 


14.' 


1829. 


‘ Jan. 4. Edward Pynchon. 

Susan Pynchon 


on. ] 
L * ) 


Note by Compiler: The large and beautiful clock in the church has lettered upon its 
face, “ A bequest to the First parish in Springfield by Edward Pynchon, Esq., 1850.” 


Sep. 6. 


Sarah Pynchon. 

Susan, wife of Joseph Stevens, from ch. in Greenwich, Mass. 
Wid. Elizabeth Schepper. 

wife of Simon Smith. 

Emeline Bates (colored girl). 

Silas Hibbard, ) „ 

Fanny Hibbard, 1 fr0m Ch ' m Hadle y- 


Sep. 20. Mrs. Sybil Ferre, 


“ Chester. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS 


95 


Samuel P. Crane, > . 

Anna Crane, J fr ° m ch ‘ 111 East Windsor > Con. 12. 


Jany. 
Mar. 7. 


May 2. 


June 13. 


1830. 

Lewis Warriner. 

Naomi, wife of Alva Whitmarsh, from Southampton. 
Sally, “ “Joel Miller, from 1st ch. in Hartford, Con. 
Mary Whitman. 

Sally Dolph. 

Dorcas Bartlett. 

Maria Noyes. 

Ralph Bliss, ) , . __ . .. 

Mary Bliss, [ from ch ‘ ln Norfolk - Con ' 

Ruth G. Sampson, from ch. in Monson. 


1831. 

Mar. 6. Lucy, wife of Bidkar Jones. 

Mrs. Hannah Alford. 

Timothy Baker, ) from the ch. in Hawley. 

Azubah Baker, > from 2nd ch. in Amherst. 

Wife of John O. Moseley, from ch. in Northampton. 

Mary, wife of Jonathan Wright, from ch. in Northampton. 
Betsey, “ “ Erastus Stebbins, South Wilbraham. 

Caroline, wife of James Chapin, Chester. 

July 3. Mrs. Lucy, wife of John F. Stevens, from ch. in Green- 
wich. 18. 

Lucinda, wife of John Sacket, from Westfield. 

Ann, “ “ Luther Sage, ‘ ‘ Philadelphia. 

Lucius Hitchcock, from ch. in Becket. 

Miner Hitchcock, “ “ “ “ 

Lorinda, wife of Luther Grant, from 1st ch. in Hartford. 

Mary, “ “ Henry Sargent, Pine Street ch., Boston. 

Sep. 4. William Miller. 

Rhoda Miller. 

Maria Miller. 

John F. Stevens. 

David Judd. 

Moses Hancock. 

Edwin Bliss. 

Edwin E. Bliss. 

Note by Compiler: Missionary to Turkey in 1843, and still there (1885). 

William H. Warner. 

Clarinda Bond. 

Lucy Ann Penniman. 

Mary Ann Pease. 

Eliza Pynchon. 




1)6 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Eliza Trask. 

Sarah Trask. 

Timothy H. Lombard. 

Jerusha Murphy. 

Mary L. , wife of Marvin Henry. 

Lucy, “ “ Ephraim Williams. 

Mary, “ “ Oliver Sexton. 

Electa Lombard. 

Orpha Lombard. 

Joseph B. Sheffield, from ch. in New Haven. 

“ “ “ Somers. 

Samuel Hills, > foom So ch in Amherst . 
Aphia Hills, \ 

Nov. 6. Samuel Reynolds. 

Sophia, wife of Henry Booth. 

Hannah, “ “ Henry Collins. 

Susan Ashcroft. 

George Blake. ) 

Huldali Blake. > 

Jane Russell. 

Jonathan Hunt. 

Thomas Bond, Jr. 

Harriet Bontecou. 

Simeon H. Calhoun. 

Notk by Compiler: Missionary to Turkey 1836 to 1S70. 

Elisa Burt. 

Erastus M. Bates. 

Lewis Briggs. 

Caroline Bliss. 

Mary Bliss. 

Emily Child. 

Caroline Witty. 

Elizabeth Warriner. 

Sarah Rowland. 

Charlott Pynchon. 

John Chaffee. 

Samary Shaw. 

Mary Ann McGillis. 

Hannah T. Kingsberry. 

Otis Child. 

John Brewer. 

Silas Chapman. 

Electa Hubbard. 

Edwin Forbes. 

Rosanna Crane. 

Eliza, wife of Lewis Bliss. 

Cyntha Ann Child. 


Orren Newton, 
Miranda Newton, 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


9 


'V 

( 


Harriet Child. 

Nancy Stebbins. 

Mary S. Osgood. 

Caroline Stebbins. 

Theodosia Hitchcock. 

Margaret Bliss. 

Laura Bliss. 

Note by Compiler : Afterwards Home Missionary. 

Martha, wife of Wm. Hunt. 

Mary, “ “ Sami. Walker. 

Franklin Coles. 

Wm. Hyde.. 

Clarissa, wife of Wm. Cooley, Jr. 

Edward Ingersol. 

Note by Compiler: Our venerable brother, Major Ingersoll. 

Lucinda Sexton. 

.Hannah Sexton. » 

Emily Wright. 

Betsey Coolidge. 

Mrs. Hannah Rauney. 

Ebenezer Sturgess. 

Moses Dagget. ) 

Lovisa Dagget. > 

Polly, wife of Sami. Moseley. 

Henry W. Lee. 

Note by Compiler: Afterwards Bishop Lee. 

Lucy, wife of Albert Morgan. 

*George Merriam, > from the cll> West Brookfield. 

Abigail Merriam, > 

Sydney Spencer, ) from the c h. in Manlius, N. Y. 

Emily Spencer, ) 

Betsey, wife of Orren Wood, Somers, Con. 

Abigail Grovenor, Enfield* Mass. 97. 

•Note by Compiler: Chosen deacon, Mar. 5, 1833. Dismissed to South Church 
1ST?. Additions 97. 

1832. 

Jan. 1. Richard D, Morris. 

Oliver E. Wood. 

Martha Bontecou. 

David Loyd. 

Mar. 4. Ebenezer W . Thwing. 

David Hoar. 

Wid. Sophia Hodget, from ch. Westfield. 

Mary, wife of Walter Warriner, from ch. Chester. 

Charles Merriam, from Bowdoin St. ch., Boston. 

7 



98 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Nov. 3. Alpheus Nettleton. 

Sophia Warriner. 

William Sparhawk. 

Charles Burnam, Jr. 12. 

Note by Compiler: Dec. 16th of this year Charles Wood and ten others asked per- 
mission to colonize, “with a view to form a free church on the hill,” which request was 
granted. 


1833. 


Jan. 6. 


May 5. 


July 1. 


Joseph Lombard. 
William Rood. ) 
Lorinda Rood. £ 
Lucy Ann Rood. 
Aaron Thwing. > 
Sarah Thwing. $ 
Mary F. Miller. 

Mrs. Hannah Pease. 
Thomas Stanly, | 
Elizabeth Stanly, j 
Eliza, wife of Galen 


from ch. in Berlin, Con. 

Ames, 1st ch., Westspringfield. 


Lemuel Crosby, ch. in Hawley. 
Elizabeth Parsons, ch. in Norwich. 
Orvin P. Wilson. ) 

Harriet Wilson, y 
Wid. Rebekah Warriner. 

Wid. Tryphena Warriner. 

Wid. Margaret Wardwell. 

Loisa Badger. 

Wid. Phoebe Hubbard. 

Rodrick Lombard. > 

Alta Lombard. > 

Lucy Bliss. 

Hannah Bliss. 

Philura Dart. 

Lois Collins. 


Betsey C. Pease. 
Sophia Wood. 
Clarissa Boylston. 
Mary Collins. 
Cruden Moseley. 
Mary F. Moseley. 
Lucy Blake. 
Clarissa Dimick. 
Sarah Johnson. 


Otis S. Baker, from 1st ch. in Worcester. 
Elizabeth Little, from the ch. in Newbraintree 
Lois Burt, “ “ - Eas t Hartford. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


99 


Ebenezer M. Dwight, from the ch. in Northampton. 

Henry Morris, “ “ “ “ Amherst College. 

Note by Compiler: Judge Morris has been frequently elected as one of the deacons, 
but declined to serve until 1867, -when be yielded to tbe preferences of tbe cburch, and re- 
mained in office until 1883, resigning tben on account of ill-health. As the historian 
of the First Church and of the. Connecticut Valley, his services have been of inestimable 
value. 

Nov. 4. Orphane, wife of Elijah W Bliss. 

Charles Blake, ch. in Ovid, N. Y. 

Dec. 15. Henry A. Benton, l oh . in Pittsfield. 

Charlotte Benton, ) 

Franklin Clark, ) ch. in Sunderland. 

Marietta Clark, } “ “ Williamsburg. 

Wid. Abigail Willis, ch. in Ware. 

Robert Robinson, “ “ Pittsfield. 

Mrs. Charity Devotic, ch. in Vernon, N. Y. 49. 

1834. 

May 4. Martin L. Child, 1st ch. in Worcester. 

Edward Badger “ “ “ Longmeadow. 

David Paine, > - n Windsor, Con. 

Ann Paine, > 

Note by Compiler: Feb. 2, Dr. Osgood preached a stringent temperance sermon, with 
the text, “ Taste not.” (Col. 2:21.) 


Mar. 1. 


Ap’l 26. 


July 5. 


1835. 

Melinda, wife of Gideon Gardner. 

Eliza, “ “ Philip Wilcox. 

Martha, “ “ Luke Rixford. 

Martha, “ “ Edmund Stebbins. 

Hannah Miller. 

Mary Miller. 

Thirsa Miller. 

Dorcas Thompson. 

Mrs. Mary D. Dwight, 2nd ch. in Amherst. 

Sarah Dwight, “ “ “ ; “ ‘ „ 

Loisa P. Bliss, wife of Ralph B., ch. m Norfolk, Con. 
Samuel Jewet, Evangel! ch. in Bolton, Mass. 

Betsey Jewet, “ “ “ 

Helen A. Jewet, “ “ 

Wm. Howland, ch. in Heath. 44 °- 

Ochran Dickinson. ) 

Amelia Dickinson, J 
Dennis Dikeman. > 

Lucy Dikeman. > 

Jacob Miller. I 
Lydia Miller, j 


100 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Gordon Williston. 

Henry Hatch. 

Hervey Neland. 

Elias Champion. 

Oliver Bartlett. 

Edwin Eels. 

Hezekiah Caraway. 

Austin Parsons. 

Ebenezer Stearns. 

Albert Eldridge. 

Wm. Thompson. 

Rufus Rice. 

Samuel Ray. 

Henry Bliss. 

Luther Crosby. 

Edmund Palmer. 

Daniel C. Brewer. 

Mrs. Mary Ashley. 

“ Harriet Taylor. 

“ Maria Loisa Parks. 

Julia Phelps. 

Sarah Alden Dale. 

Miss Loisa Wood. 

Emma Bliss. 

Notk by Compiler : Afterwards wife of Henry J. Lennep, and Missionary to Turkey 
Jerusha Bliss. 

Lois Bliss. 

Mrs. Mabel Hobart. 

Miss Sophia Rice. 

Laura Brooks. 

Lucy Comstock. 

Lucinda Blake. 

Harriet Hunt. 

Mary Ann Sexton. 

Fidelia Baker. 

Sybil E. Bagg. 

Eunice Wright. 

Emily Parsons. 

Lucy Hodget. 

Jerusha Stebbins. 

Sarah Eastman. 

Margret Hubbard. 

Jenette Kirkham. 

Persis Goodman. 

Fanny F. Osgood. 

Mary Pomeroy. 

Caroline Jewet. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


101 


Robert Crosset, Jr., ) , * , „ 

Weltha Crosset, } St ch ' m Nortliam P ton - 
Mrs. Lucy Fuller, from 1st ch. in Northampton. 

Reuben A. Chapman, ) « , . 

Elizabeth Chapman, \ fr ° m Ch ' m M ° nSOn - 
Mrs. Amanda Stearns, “ “ “ “ 

Lyman Hitchcock, > » a TT „ 

Dorcas Hitchcock, f fr0m lst cK ln So ' Hadle ^ 

Mrs. Harriet Adams, from ch. in North Mansfield. 

“ Laura Cross, “ « ■“ Portland, Me. 

Benjamin Smith, > f rom West ch. in Granby. 

Armenia Smith, > J 

AV elthy Cowan, from ch. in Chester. 

Mrs. Nancy Flagg, Ware Yil. 

Sep. 7. Hervey Morse. 

Horatio Crow. 

Richard Bliss. 

Mrs. Julia Hiscox. 

“ Fanny Bartlett. 

Lucinda Alden. 

Margret Brown. 

Sarah Bond. 

Sophia ‘Bond. 

Julia Ann Chapin. 

Lucy Bliss. 

Maria Morris. 100 

Franklin Wilcox. 

Adaline Eldridge. 

Note by Compiles: This addition of 100 persons, of whom 83 united by profession, 
is noteworthy, considering the population of Springfield in 1835, and bearing in mind the 
addition of 97 persons in 1831, 49 persons in 1832, &c. This number of conversions in a sin- 
gle year was never equaled in the church except in 1878, at the Moody and Sankey revival. 


Mar. 6. 
May 1. 


July 3. 


1836. 


Abigail Holman. 
Wm. Barlow. 
Lydia Orchard. 
Eldad Goodman. 1 
Sarah Goodman, j 
James Sanderson. 


Mrs. Ann, wife of Luther Sage, 2nd ch., Middletown. 
Frederick Bradley, ch. in West Stockbridge. 

James Wallace, > 5th ch in Springfield. 

Sarah R. Wallace, l 

Mrs. Ethelinda, wife of James Chapman. 

Mrs. Mary Ann, wife of John P. Brewer. 

Chancy Hubbard. 

John P. Brewer, from 3rd Free ch., N. Y. 


10 2 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


George Crossett, ) 1st ch., Northampton. 

Elizabeth Crossett, ) 1st ch., Charlestown, Mass. 

July 30. Win. W. Chapman. 

Nov. 6. Wells Lathrop. 18. 

Note by Compiler: Simeon H. Calhoun, ordained as missionary to Turkey in this 
church in November of this year. 


1837. 

Feb. 20. Dr. Wm. Bridgman, ) lst ch ^ Belchertown . 

Jemima Bridgman, > 

Mrs. Abigail Hale, ch. in Monson. 

Calvin Ward, “ “ “ 

Francis Graves, “ “ Bennington. 

Miss Sally Drake, “ “ South wick. 

Mrs. Polly, wife of Pitkin Crane, Esperance, N. Y. 

Sep. 3. Robert Crosset. 

Kodolphus Kinsley, » ch in Cabotvilk 
Lucinda Kinsley, ) 

Rhoda Howard, ch. in Cabotvilie. 

Elizabeth, wife of Lewis Warriner, 3rd Free ch. in N. Y. 12. 

1838. 

January. Mary Ann Searle. 

Charles Frost. 

Edward Crane. 

Cordial Crane. 

Mrs. Lucy Graves, ch. in Hatfield. 

Ashley P. Graves, “ “ “ 

Mary Ann Graves, “ “ “ 

Nancy Brainerd, “ *« Middletown. 

July 1. Edwin Wilder. 

Samuel Hills, Jr. 

Horrace Braman. 

Daniel Gay. 

Ithamar Goodman, Jr. 

Lewis Goodman. 

Emily Bliss. 

Mary Bond. 

Hannah T. Carew. 

Nancy Woodruff. 

Elisabeth Lathrop. 

Wm. Hatfield, ch. in Granby. 

Lucy Graves, ch. in Hatfield. 

Samuel Daniels, ) ... . . „ . „ , 

Harriet Daniels, \ 4th Ch ' “ Sprm S fleId ' 

*Benjamin Eldridge, > 

Eliza Eldridge, f Murra y St., New York. 

*Note by Compiler: Elected deacon in 1842. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Sept. 2. 

June 2. 

Sept. 1. 

Jan. 5. 

Mar. 1. 
May 3. 

Jan. 3. 


J 


ch in Chester. 


Garry Morrison, 

Harriet Morrison, 

Betsey Fisher, Cabbotville. 

William Hobbs, “ 

Mrs. Lucy A. G. Cowles, 2nd ch., Hartford. 

Theophilus Graves, ) ch in Bennington, Yt. 

Graves, ) 

Caroline Graves, ch. in Bennington, V t. 

Hannah Fuller, “ “ Chicopee. 

Walter Stanley. 35. 

1839. 

David P. King, ) , . , r 

... y ch. in Monson. 

Almira King, > 

Mrs. Ascenath Hitchcock, ch. in Chickopee. 

Mrs. Harriet, wife of Wm. Miller, Jr., Hatfield. 
Thomas P. Whitmarsh, ch. in Newburg, N. Y. 

Mrs. Desire Bangs, “ “ Hawley. 

“ Phebe Shattuck, “ “ “ 

Edwin Spooner, > Edwards ch., Northampton. 
Mary Ann Spooner, ) 

Sam’l Worcester Reed. 10. 


1840. 

Mrs. Catherine Belden. 

Andalusia F. Fuller. 

Ellen Rowland. 

Francis Andrew. 

Caroline Donald. 

Mrs. Lydia Lathrop, ch. in So. Weymouth. 

“ Lucy Holcomb, “ “ Bolton. 

Eliza Crane. 

William Stow, ch. in Westfield. 

Mrs. Grace Achison. 

Dr. Henry Vaile, ) ch . in Longmeadow. 12. 

Mrs. Ann Vaile, ) 


1841. 

Elizabeth L. Clapp. 

Ann Elizabeth Stebbins. 

Sam’l Ray, from Cong’l ch., New York. 

Mrs. Clarissa Shurtleff, from ch. in Norwich, Vt. 


“ Lucy Whipple, 

“ ' Palmelia Clough, 
“ Mercy Smith, 

Mr. Marvin Wellmon, 
Mrs. Mary Wellmon, 
Mr. Samuel E. Bailey, 


1st ch. in Northampton. 
“ ch. in Syracuse, N. Y. 
Granby, Mass. 

West Springfield. 

Millidgeville, Ga. 




104 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS, 


Mr. Chas. K. Crocker, > 2 n( j Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Mrs. Julian Crocker, > 

David C. M. Rupp, Canandaigua, N. Y. 

Sept. Mary Bailey. 

Mrs. Mary Woodman. 

Sarah H. Osgood. 

Mary Chapin. 

Julia Chapin. 

Mary Blake. 

Maria W. Blake. 

Augusta Eliot. 

Achsali A. Buckland. ' 

Susan Taylor. 

Alfred L. Townsley, ch. in Somers, Con. 

Mrs. Sophronia Glover, ch., N. Wilbraham. 
Chauncey L. Covell, North ch., Hartford. 

Mrs. Eliza Day, 1 ch., West Springfield. 27. 

Catherine P. Kingsbury, ch. in Needham. 


1842. 


March 6. 


April 17. 

. June 20. 
July. 


Sept. 

Nov. 


Mrs. Mary Ann Dickinson. 

Sarah E. Chapman. 

Laura A. Jenks. 

Elijah Dickinson, ch. in Hadley. 
Mrs. Mary Davis, “ “ Grafton. 


Number of males in the church at this time, 101; females, 315; total, 416. 
Mrs. Almira Clark. 

Esther King, ch. in Enfield, Conn. 

Mrs., wife of Marvin Foster, ch. in Whately. 

Mrs. Melita Freeman, Ware Vil, 

Charlotte Stebbins. 

Hannah Tilden. 

sx.’ssis, “■ 



Note by Compiler: This year 38 members were dismissed to organize the “South ” 
church. 


1843. 

January. Wealthy W. Shattuck. 
Nancy Buskirk. 

Mar. 3. Mrs. Sarah Ann Spooner. 

July 2. Josiah B. Allen. 

Newel A. Spencer. 

James H. Osgood. 
Elizabeth L. Chapin. 
Elizabeth Bowers. 

Sarah Goodman. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


105 


Mrs. Maria, wife of Walter Stanley, ch. Hartford. 

Cynthia, “ “ Elihu Hunt, “ Northampton. 

Elihu Hunt, ch. Westhampton. 

Sept. 2. Mrs. Marytta P. Rice, ch. in Westspringfield. 

Miss Abigail Harlow, “ •“ Wethersfield, Conn. 

Aaron Davis, ) ch in NewarU) N . j. 

Sarah Davis, j 

Oct. Mrs. Lucretia Green, 1st ch. in Westspringfield. 

Mrs. Sarah Cargin, ch. in 6th St., New York. 

Nov. 4. Capt. Henry Morris. 

Lois Bond. 

Dr. James M. Smith, from ch. in Westfield. 

* John R. Hixon, ? f rom Calvinistic Ch. in Taunton. 

Martha Hixon, ) 

*Note by Compiler: Elected deacon Dec. 21, 1865, and still occupies the office as 
senior deacon. 


1844. 

Jan. 7. * Gardner Adams. > 

Eunice R. Adams. ) 

Lois, wife of George Gardner. 

Lucy, “ “ Edmund Allen. 

Harriet, wife of Charles Child. 

Annis, “ “ Wm. Hatfield. 

Wm. Devines. 

Chloe Bliss. 

Mrs. Rubie Bliss. 

Mar. 4. Wid. Clarissa Harris. 

Henry Glover. 

Mrs. Harriet Willis, ch. in Deerfield. 

Mary, wife of Dan’l Gay, ch. in So. Hadley. 
Harriet Octavia Harris. 

May 5. James Brewer. 

Mary Brewer. 

Eunice Brewer. 

Sarah Adams. 

Wm. A. Kent. 

Chauncey Chapin. 

Note by Compileb. Elected deacon 1848. 

Cornelia Lombard. 

Lovina D. Bailey. 

Wm. Callender. | 

Harriet Callender, j 
Sarah Steele. 

Benjamin Steele. 

Reuben L. Finch. { 

Sarah Finch. j 


106 

FIRST CHURCII OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 

% 

John Avery. 

Mary Avery. 

Silas W. Browning. 

Ebenr. Bliss. 

Julia Bates. 

Elizabeth Bates. 


Note by Compiler : Afterwards City Missionary of First Ch., and still serving. 
Helen M. Osgood. 


Sept. 

Mrs. Sarah Scott. 

Perry Goodel. | 

Mary Goodel. ) 

Mrs. Clarissa B. Day. 

Dolly Miller. 

Aurelia Miller. 

Sarah Goodman. 

Lydia Bates. 

Azubah Hendricks. 

Caroline Stebbins. 

Mary Anderson. 

Venus Simons (colored). 

Nathaniel Taylor. 

Sarah Taylor. 

Harriet Blake. 

Frances Kirkham. 

Danl. L. Harris, from ch. in Plainfield, Conn. 

Eunice Winchell, “ “ “ Suffield, “ 

Zephaniah Hunt, from Fourth Ch. in Springfield. 

Aaron S. Ogden, | f rom Fourth Ch. in Hartford. 

. Elizabeth Ogden, ) 

Mrs. Catharine West, from ch. in Templeton. 

Lewis White, ) „ , . , T ,, , 

White f fr° m c h* m Northampton. 

Wm. Smith, from Salem Ch., Boston. 

Wm. S. Bosworth, from ch. in Mansfield. 

Sept. 8. 

Mrs. Mercy Chapin, wife of Danl., from ch. in W. Springfield. 
Mrs. Harriet Warner, wife of Solo., from ch. in Enfield, Conn. 
Dr. Flavius Searle, from ch. in S. Hampton. 

Feb. 16. 
20. 

1845. 

Mrs. Mary M. Sargent, from Fourth Ch. , Springfield. 

Peter Briggs, ) 

Mrs. Peter Briggs, > 

Miss Miranda Briggs. 

Silas. S. Caral, from ch. in Monson. 

May 4. 

Fanny F. Browning, from ch. in Ware. 

Maria W. Alden, from First Pres. Ch. , Albany. 

Nancy Holman, from So. Ch., Springfield. 

Sami. Dwight Holman. 


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107 


July 6. 

Seneca Griswold. 7 

Mary F. Griswold. ) 

Henry Sargent. 

Walter Chapin. 

Ann Palmer. 

Miranda Lombard, from ch. in Hinsdale. 

Waitstill Hastings, ) 

Julia Hastings, { ch ' ln Charlemont. 

Henry L. Burpee, ch. in Somers. 

Susan J. Burpee, ch. in West Springfield. 

Aug. 10. 

24. 

Mrs. Mercy Osborn. 

Ed. D. Bangs, 7 ch. in Amherst College. 

Amelia F. Bangs, > “ “ S. Hadley. 

De Esting F. Field, 7 , . T , . 

Mrs. Editha Field, > 

Oct. 10. 

Mrs. Sina Field. 

Jane, wife of Dr. Smith, ch. in Suffield. 

Roxalana, wife of Horace Kibbee, ch. in Ellington. 

Nov. 2. 

Miss Alsa Jenks. 


Note by Compiler: 1844-45 witnessed another revival under Dr. Osgood’s ministra- 
tions. During this season week-day prayer-meetings at 8 A. m., were held in the o 
Mechanics’ Hall. 

1846. 


Jan. 4. 

Rachel, wife Doct. Gray. 

Dea. Sami. Hastings, | £ rom c b. Charlemont. 

Lucy Hastings, > 

Geo. Hastings, 7 » t ti (( gbelburne. 

Lucy Jane Hastings, ) 

Simeon Olmsted, 7 frQm Fourt ] 1 ck tj Springfield. 

Olmsted, > 

April 19. 

Charles Whittemore. 

Roxana Rogers, from ch. in Hardwick. 

Anson Hubbard, 7 f rom c h. in Plymouth. 

Hubbard, ) 

July 5. 

Henry A. Sikes, 7 froni c j 1> j n Suffield, Ct. 

Julia H. Sikes, ) 

Henry Avery, from ch. in Windsor, Ct. 

Lucia Eastman, “ “ “ Longmeadow. 

Aug. 9. 

Ebenr. R. Warner, 7 f rom c h. in N. Wilbraham. 
Betsev^wIfTof Wm. Cooley, Jr., from ch. in Hartford Center. 

Sept. 27. 

Otis K. Ladd, J cb. in Tolland, Ct. 

Hannah Ladd, ) 


108 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


1847. 

Jan. 1. Clarissa, wife of Noah Ashley. 

March 6. Maria, “ “ C. A. Bugbee. 

Mrs. Mary Cofran. 

Daniel Chapin. 

Charles A. Bugbee, from ch. in Northampton. 

*Daniel Reynolds, ) from ch iu E Hartford. 

Emily Reynolds, ) 

July 4. Wife of Wm. Devines. 

Sept. 5. Mrs. Elizabeth -Fitch, from ch. in Otis. 

’♦Note by Compiler: Deacon 1850 to ’65; church clerk 1851 to ’54. Died in 1881, 
aged 76. 


1848. 

Mar. 4. Harvey Bliss, Jun., from ch. in West Springfield. 

Thomas Middleton, 1 from First ch . in Charlestown. 
Middleton, j 

Susan Priscenda Snow, from First Ch., Hartford. 

Rhoda Blake, wife of Chas., from Baptist ch., Hartford. 

May 7. *Levi P. Rowland, ) , . x • i ,-< 4 . 

_ , , * J- ch. in Lisbon, Ct. 

Rowland, > 

♦Note by Compiler. Elected deacon 1856. 

Martha Calhoun, ch. in Owego, N. Y. 

June 26. Electa, wife of Henry Fuller, from Fourth ch. 

Mrs. Jane E. Comstock, from ch. in Westfield. 

July 2. Doct. S. J. S. Rogers, from Pres. ch. in Baltimore. 

Emerson Wight, from ch. in Sturbridge. 

Note by Compiler : Elected parish treasurer 1874-6. 

Sept. 3. Elinora, wife of Hervey Bliss, Jr. 

Emily, “ “ S. C. Ray. 

Dec. 15. Mrs. Catharine Conklin, from North Ch. 

Hannah, wife of Harvey Chapin, from Fourth Church. 


Feb. 18. 


April 8. 
22 . 


May 6. 


July 15. 


1849. 

Mrs. Abigail Grant, First Ch. in Longmeadow. 

Harvey Bliss. ) 

Abigail Bliss, J 

Marshal Bliss, ) f rom j n West Springfield. 

Eliza E. Bliss, > & 

Mary S. Reynolds, “ “ “ Greenwich. 

Mrs. Henry Root, “ “ “ Westfield. 

Henry W. Shaw. 

Geo. W. Lyman, 1 

Susan B. Lyman, f from church in Middlefield. 

Henry J . D. Schermerhorn, from church in Geneva, N. Y. 
Rhoda C., wife of Asahel Hubbard, from Fourth Church. 
Rebecca, wife of Sable Rogers, “ “ “ 


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109 


Aug. 5. Benj. F. Walcott, [ from Third Church, Springfield. 

Julia M. Walcott, \ from church in Mason. 

Sept. 2. Adelaide Hitchcock. 

Merick Houghton, from church in Amherst. 

Nov. 4. Robert Clisbe. 

James Lombard. 

John Richards. 

Oliver W. Miller. 22. 

Note by Compiler : Dr. Osgood records the fact in a sermon this year that in the 
past 40 years of his pastorate here h^ had been detained from the house of God only one 
whole Sabbath and half of two others, and this from lameness rather than sickness. 


1850. 


Jan. 5. 
Mar. 17. 


May 3. 


June 16. 


July 7. 


29. 


Aug. 18. 
Nov. 24. 


Francis A. Brewer. 

Mrs. Marcia Solace, church in . 

Mrs. Sally Bruce, church in Hardwick. 

Mrs. Elmira S. Bruce, church in Hardwick. 

Louisa S. Bruce, church in Hardwick.. 

.Abby Wellmon. 

Mary Wellmon. # 

Elizabeth Crossett. 

Caroline W. Goodman. 

Sarah W., wife of Dr. Vaille, from Ortho. Ch. in Walpole. 

Simeon Newell, ? from church in Longmeadow. 

Mrs. Harriet Newell, ) 

Horace Mather, from church in Suffield. 

Eunice, wife of Moses B. Brown. 

Orpah, wife of John Warriner. 

Cynthia, wife of Stephen Atwood. 

Emily Newell. 

Mary Wood. 

Amelia Wood. 

Ellen H. Ashton. 

Mrs Flavia Wood, from church in Enfield, Ct. 

Andrew Huntington, ) from Fourth Church, Springfield. 
Mrs Mary F. Huntington, } from church in Lisbon, Ct. 

Mary, wife of Henry W. Shaw, from church in Northampton. 
Louisa Dickinson, from church on the Hill. 


Note by Compiler : Population of Springfield in 1850, 11,330. 


1851. 


Jan. 5. Samuel Walker, 7 f rom North Church. 

Mary Walker, ) 

“ William Walker, ) f rom North Church. 

Margaret Walker, > 

„ Everett W. Walker, from church in Belchertown. 

“ Caroline Bliss. 

“ Mrs. Mary Merrick. 


110 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Jan. 5. Mrs. Lucy Lyman. 

“ Amelia E. Chapin. 

“ Caroline H. Wilson. 

“ Jane Rice. 

Frances A., wife of Danl. Pynchon, church in Stonington. 
April. Mrs. Jane W. Hooker, church in West Hampton. 14. 

Note by Compiler: July 1, 1851, grand concert in the church by the famous “ Swed- 
ish Nightingale,” Jenny Lind. 

1852. 

March. Charles B. Ball, church in Lee. 

Emeline Crosby, church in Washington, Indiana. 

Nov. 7. William Cooley. 

7. Mrs. Louisa Fletcher. 

“ Mary E. Reynolds. 

Note by Compiler: Afterwards missionary A. B. C. F. M. (Bulgaria). 

7. Arthur N. Clark. 


May 1. 
May 1. 
Feb. 27. 
July 3. 

3. 

3. 

Feb. 27. 
Aug. 21. 


Nov. 6. 


1853. 


Widow Harriet Smith. 

Mrs. Emily Fitts, wife Lewis. 

Maretta Brown, from church in Lee. 

Miss Lucy A. Hatfield. 

Miss Jane Wallace. 

Louisa Stebbins. 

Mrs. Sarah M., wife Henry Rice, church in Enfield, Conn. 
Mrs. Marcia, wife Noah Wright, church in Sunderland. 


Mrs. Marion Gibbons, from church in Franklin, N. Y. 
Elisha Bliss, ) e , , . 

Almira Bliss, \ fromchurch “ Agawam. 

Doct Lewis Hurd, ) ~ . . . , , 

Caroline W. Hurd, f C ° Dgregatlonal church , Chicago. 

Wm. S. Keep, church in North Brookfield. 

Miss Lucy M. Dale, church in Rutland. 

Miss Emeline Work, church in New Haven. 


1854. 


May Miss Jane Gregg, church in Bridgeport. 

♦Mrs. Marcia, wife of Francis Brewer, church in Hinsdale. 

Note by Compiler: With the preceding name, the records of Dr. Osgood come to 
end. During his pastorate 1,257 were added to the church. 


an 


" Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from 
everlasting to everlasting, and let all the 
the people say Amen. Praise ye the Lord.” 


REV. SAMUEL OSGOOD, D. D. 


BY THEO. W. ELLIS. 

Of stalwart frame and commanding presence, Dr. Osgood was for 
more than half a century a noticeable figure in the town of Spring- 
field; and the physique fairly represented the man. The inheritance 
of a vigorous constitution, together with his simple habits and 
virtues, rendered him capable of great exertion and long endurance. 
His intellect was of the same order as his body — strong, wholesome, 
vigorous. In speech and in pulpit address he was always plain, at 
times even homely, but invariably to the point. Looking with 
single-eyed directness to the very heart of any matter under debate, 
and to the end of a problem, he was often in advance of his breth- 
ren; and like others of clear vision and positive convictions, he suf- 
fered the penalty of his prescience. He was frank, decided, and 
tenacious of the right; but he was likewise generous, forgiving and 
sympathetic. The well-known lithographic picture which remains of 
him instantly gives you the impression of an independent spirit, 
kind, serious, and truthful, but perfectly fearless in the field of 
moral conflict. And such exactly was the sixth pastor of the First 
Church. 

The period of his ministry was remarkable for many and varied 
causes of excitement and discussion within the churches and without. 
To only four of these is there space for reference. In 1819, Dr. 
Channing (afterwards known as the ee apostle of Unitarianism ) ad- 
vocated the views of his school of worshipers with great zeal and 
ability, and, as a consequence, a ferment of excitement was created 
all over the State. This commotion is now nearly forgotten, and all 
the causes of it have shrunken to the narrowest limits; but at that 
period, and under the eloquence of Channing, the schism was like 
the Connecticut river when, swelling from the impetus of an un- 
usual freshet, no one could calculate the changes that might ensue. 
Not less important, equally exciting, and more rancorous even, was 
the anti-slavery contest of twenty years later, when conservatism 
entrenched itself against the discussion of the huge crime and na- 
tional evil of human bondage. Still another occasion of heated de- 


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bate and sharp division came into prominence in the endeavor to make 
a moral question of, and a moral stand against the time-honored drink- 
ing habits of the fathers. Meanwhile, other difficulties were inev- 
itable; the town was growing and building up at considerable dis- 
tances from Court Square, so that new meeting-houses were deemed 
necessary in various districts of the parish, and the old body was there- 
fore frequently called upon to consider the religious needs of other lo- 
calities, and to endure the dismissal of large colonies for the forma- 
tion of new societies. Different denominations constituted churches 
of their own order between 1820 and 1840, and drew from the First 
Church any members who sympathized with their respective tenets. 
For all this work and these unusual conditions, Dr. Osgood was the 
right man in the right place; and none the less so, because in the 
graver causes of division, some of his timid friends would gladly 
have resorted to compromise, and would have trusted to tact and 
policy. But concession, as time has shown, would not only have 
proved futile but disastrous. The issue was to be met, and so far as 
the pulpit of the First Church was concerned, there was a square 
man to meet it squarely. He was very little of a manager, noth- 
ing of a trimmer, and never dissembled. No uncertain sound 
therefore issued from the trumpet of the First Church during those 
days. Conscious of divine appointment to his work, seeing clearly 
the truth as it had been handed down from the apostles, perfectly 
consistent and unyielding on moral issues, Dr. Osgood became 
necessarily the champion of orthodox belief; his bugle blasts rang 
long and loud and clear; and if some separated themselves and de- 
parted and others went to the rear discouraged, the body was 
stronger without the wavering and the ready-to-halt. Those. who 
kept step to the - music of the ancient faith grew more resolute and 
steadfast, and with a leader undismayed by numbers and unseduced 
by patronage, the standard was grandly upheld; the hosts marched on 
unflinchingly until, in this section of the field of polemic battle, vic- 
tory was assured for right principles and for the faith once delivered 
to the saints. 

And by the gracious appointment of his heavenly Father, when 
the campaign was finished there was granted to this faithful veteran 
the gratifying evidence that his struggles were not in vain; revival 
after revival followed upon and after his strong contentions for and 
defense of righteousness and religion. Small as the population of 
Springfield then was, over one thousand souls were added to the 
church by profession alone during his ministry. Some of those who 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 113 


had been foremost in denouncing his inflexible adherence to convic- 
tions of duty frankly admitted the wrong they had done him, and 
asked his forgiveness; friends, neighbors, and former church asso- 
ciates who had differed from him, as the years rolled on, recognized 
with kindliest feelings the intrepid and self-denying spirit of the 
man, and gladly did homage to his unselfishness, reverencing the 
genuine virtues and Christian graces which trials and years had 
served but to heighten and brighten. Venerable for lengthened days 
and completed service, he finished his first and only charge over the 
flock of Christ as he had lived and labored in it, without a shadow 
or a stain upon the unsullied repute with which he began his minis- 
try. 

The time has come when his courage and persistence may be fully 
appreciated, and without implying the slightest reflection upon the 
motives and conduct of those earlier separatists whose doctrinal views 
he so strenuously opposed, just credit may now be awarded to his 
memory for the rare and unshrinking fidelity which, under trying cir- 
cumstances, characterized a long pastorate and distinguished it as little 
less than heroic. He was the man for the crisis; the soldier for the 
battle. And he acted his part nobly and well. To-day there are no 
two opinions on the moral issues in which he was enlisted; all side 
with him in the views for which he contended. Upon the great doc- 
trine in dispute in his day, the church is not less of a unit at this 
hour than in the ages before. Thanks to his firmness in the critical 
juncture, a firmness maintained at the highest personal cost, the land- 
marks of apostolic Christianity in this vicinity were not swept away by 
the rushing torrent. The peace which his zeal and sacrifices con- 
quered, we enjoy; and we should be ungrateful indeed to forget the 
yeoman service which he rendered to the church of Christ. 

But no reference to the trials of his ministry and the unfaltering 
steadiness of his course would be complete without recognition of the 
commanding sweetness and devotion of his heroic wife. Her simple 
trust in Christ, the sanctified beauty of her face, and the grace of 
her manners, not only were the joy of her husband, but through all 
the long years of his labors, they held with gentle sway the hearts of 
many who might otherwise have become weary in well doing, if not 
alienated from the ancient faith. Thoughtful, self-denying, and un- 
flinching, she was worthy of the post of honor which she filled, and 
grandly contributed to the successful issue of the work which Dr. 
Osgood accomplished for the truth of Christ, and for our benefit, in 

the city of Springfield. 

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1855. 


Noth by Compiler: The ministry of Rev. H. M. Parsons commenced Nov. 15, 1851. 
Jan. 5. Levi P. Rowland, Jr., profession. 

Note by Compiler: Elected deacon March, 1856. 

Ellen P. Rowland, profession. 

Henrietta S. Chapin, “ 

Eliza B. Reynolds, “ 

Sarah C. Shaw, South Church, City. 

May 4. D. Chauncey Brewer, profession. 

Note by Compiler: Church clerk. 


Margaret Aitclieson, profession. 
Laura K. Talcott, “ 

Elizabeth Howard, “ 

Maria Foster, “ 

Mary L. Crossett, “ 

Henry Sargeant, 

Mary M. Sargeant, 

Samuel E. Bailey, 

HuldahT. Bailey, 

*Lewis Warriner, 

Elizabeth L. Warriner, £ 


f 


South Church, City. 


South Church, City. 

I South Church, City. 




*Note by Compiler: Elected deacon 1856, and for several terms afterwards. 
Elizabeth C. Holman, South Church, City. 

Mary E. Parsons, U. Pres, church, Richmond, Ya. 

Otis Childs, ) -r, , . . , . ^ 

Abbie Childs, \ Presb J tenan church, Milledgeville, Ga. 

Emeline L. Topliff, Congregational church, Southampton, 
Mass. 

Elizabeth D. Rice, church, Guilford, Conn. 

Adaline L. Mills, church Brooklyn, Conn. 

Mary A. Brewer, Center Congregational church, Boston. 

Ellen R. Crossett, church Walpole. 

Mar. 2. Henrietta Burbank, church Feeding Hills. 

Martha Burbank, church Feeding Hills. 

Mary S. Bliss (Jewett), church Agawam. 

June 29. Mary Aitchison, church Longmeadow. 

Jane Aitchison, church Longmeadow. 

Richard D. Hudson, church East Longmeadow. 

Mary B. Hudson, church East Longmeadow. 

John M. Brewster, church Amherst. 

H. Minerva Mills, Salem Street Church, Worcester. 

Lydia Gleason, Third Church, Chicopee. 

Anna H. Lyman, Old South Church, Boston. 

Frances B. Wright, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Albany. 
Marvin Chapin, church at Westfield. 

Jane R. Kline, profession. 

Sarah Mills, profession. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


115 


Aug. 31. 


Cornelia S. Brewster, profession. 

Abbie E. Rice, profession. 

Nelson W. Goddard, | [ tt Springfleld V t. 
Sarah D. Goddard, \ F ° 

Ann B. Abbe, letter, Enfield, Conn. 

Nov. 2. Betsey V. Spencer, letter, Sunderland. 

Lucinda Graham, letter, First Church, Palmer. 
Maria O’Donnell, profession. 

Jane E. Hancock, profession. 

Harriet Adams, profession. 

Note by Compiler: Whole number of members, 347. 


1856. 


Jan. 4. 


Feb. 29. 


May 2. 


July 6. 


Sept. 7. 
Nov. 2. 


Sophia Smith, church in Feeding Hills, Mass. 

Roxanna Shearer, church in New Salem, Mass. 

James S. Hutchins, First Trinity Church, Brooklyn, Conn. 
Julia M. Hutchins, 

Mary P. Moseley, South Church, City. 

Elizabeth M. Taylor, profession. 

Susan A. Kinsley, profession. 

Julia A. Bates, profession. 

Joel S. Marsh, > Q on g re gational church, South wick, Mass. 
Abby D. Marsh, ) 

Sarah B. Warriner (Merrick), profession. 

Mary J. Wright, profession. 

Seth W. Avery, profession. 

Martha N. Birnie, South Church, City. 

Sarah Tully, South Church, City. 

Elizabeth L. Tully, South Church, City. 

Hannah D. Hume, Presbyterian church in Huntington, L. I. 
Harriet Fitzhugh, Congregational church, Nottingham, En- 


gland. 

Eunice Gardner, profession. 

James L. Warriner, South Church, City. 

Harriet M. Brown, church in Ludlow, Mass. 

Lucy Ann Dikeman, profession. 

Caroline Alice Wood, profession. 

Mary Ann Morton, Cong, church, South Hadley Falls. 
Albert L. Sturtevant, profession. 


Feb. 27. 
May 1. 


1857. 

;S ey Adams, First Congregational Church, Suffield, Conn . 
vard O. Bragdon, Congregational church, Agawam. 

; Mary Whitney, Congregational church in Conway, 

;s Frances J. Whitney, Congregational church in Conway. 
3 Laurinda C. Whitney, Congregational church, Conway. 


116 


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Joseph T. Webber, Congregational church, Monson. 

Mrs. L. B. Webber, Congregational churQh, Monson. 

J. Henry Dow, Congregational church, Hampton, N. H. 

Mrs. Almenia Bond, First Church, Palmer. 

Mary D. Chapin, profession. 

Amelia L. Chapin, profession. 

Sept. 4. Emeline Blue, Presbyterian church, Thompsonville, Conn. 

Jane C. R. Cooley, Dutch Reformed church, Belleville, N. J. 
Nov. 1. Harriet A. Hunt, profession. 

Margaret A. Whitney, First Cong. Church, Sandusky, O. 
Mary Jane Rice, First Congregational Church, Longmeadow. 


1858. 


Jan. 3. Mary W. Morris, profession. 

Elizabeth Sargent, profession. 

Mrs. Catherine S. Chaffee, church in Blandford. 

Mar. 6. Julia B. Colton, Congregational church, Longmeadow. 

Abigail McCormick, Congregational church, Grafton, Vt. 
May 2. Abby Gardner, profession. 

Julia E. Bemis, profession. 

Sarah E. Bates, profession. 

Eliza W. Dikeman, profession. 

• Anna G. Wingate, profession. 

Sarah J. Crossett, profession. 

William B. Calhoun, profession. 

Nelson Lombard, profession. 

George Crossett, profession. 

July 4. Julia F. Chapin, church Windsor, Vt. 

Walter E. Chapin, church, Windsor, Vt. 

Nancy G. Wingate, Lawrence St. Church, Lawrence, Mass. 
Margaret Bell, profession. 



Note by Compiler: Afterwards wife of Rev. Henry Hascall, foreign missionary Bul- 
ia. J * 

Sarah J. Flagg, profession. 

Lizzie C. Bliss, profession. 

Nellie S. Childs, profession. 

Abbie M. Marsh, profession. 

Luther Bliss, Jr., profession. 

Lucian Brown, profession. 

James L. Mills, profession. 

Elbridge Brigham, profession. 

Note by Compiler: Elected deacon 1861. 


Elisha Morgan, profession. 

Charles Cooley, profession. 

Sept. 5. Robert B. Moores, Fourth Congregational Church, Hartford 
Conn. * 

Lucy C. Palmer, profession. 


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117 


Mary Coffran, profession. 

Ellen Anderson, profession. 

Sarah Hume, profession. 

Note by Compiler: Now missionary A. B. C. F. M. in India. 

Katie Hume, profession. 

Hannah Hume, profession. 

Edward C. Rogers, profession. 

Note by Compiler: Church clerk 1870 to 1879; elected deacon 1879; parish treasurer 
1877 - 81 . 

William H. Haile, profession. 

' Noteby Compiler: Sunday-school superintendent 1878. Elected deacon but declined. 
Elbridge Lombard, profession. 

Nov. 5. A. A. Adey, 7 Christ Episcopal Church, City. 

Harriet E. Adey, ) profession. 

Sarah E. Graham, profession. 

Carrie F. Spooner, profession. 

George W. Sargeant, profession. 

John M. Chapin, profession. 

Note by Compiler: A graduate of Yale and the Theological Seminary in Hartford; 
pastor of First Church, West Springfield, June, 1872; died October, 1872. 

Note by Compiler: Total members, 353; additions this year 45; by profession 37. 


March 4. 


May 1. 


July 3. 


Oct. 2. 
Nov. 4. 


1859. 

John D. Tracy, 7 Beneficent Church, Providence, R. I. 
Harriet R. Tracy, £ 

Ruth Jennings, Presbyterian church, Pottsville, Pa. 

Alfred P. Bartlett, profession. 

Jonathan Wright, Presbyterian church, Cleveland, O. 

Mary Wright, Presbyterian church, Cleveland, O. 

A. A. Allen, North Church, City. 

Mrs. A. R. Allen, North Church, City. 

Mrs. A. B. Cooley, North Church, City. 

Eliza A. Cooley, North Church, City. 

Theo. Dillingham, North Church, City. 

E. Jane Dillingham, North Church. City. 

Mary Woodworth, Olivet Church, City. 

John C. Kingsley, First Congregational Church, Waterbury, 
Conn. 

Ann More (or Morse), First Church, Westfield. 

Catharine Thomas, First Church, Westfield. 

Emily M. Chapin, profession. 

Hannah P. Blake, profession. 

Orinda D. Sheare (French), profession. 

iKtvsa’srsu-- , 

Mercy°Osborn, First Cong. Church, Middletown, Conn. 


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1860. 

Jan. 1. MaryB. Brigham, profession. 

Sarah J. Jocelyn, profession. 

Miranda K. Lombard, North Church, City. 

May 6. William Bigelow, M. D., First Congregational Church, Ben- 
nington, Vt. 

Dorinda Bigelow, First Congregational Church, Bennington, 
Vt. 

Henry Bailey, profession. 

July 1. Mrs. Elizabeth Lovejoy, First Congregational Church, Clinton, 
Wis. 

Nov. 4. Lewis T. Porter, > North Church> city . 

Mary W. Porter, ) 

Thomas H. Tucker, ) Union Church, Worcester. 

Lucy E. Tucker, ) First Cong. Church, Manchester, Conn. 
James Cleeland, ) St. Johns Presbyterian Church, St Johns, 
Jane A. Cleeland, ) N. B. 

Mary Lucinda Kinsley, profession. 


1861. 


Jan. 6. *Addison P. Ware, > fession . 

Sarah Bliss Ware, ) 

#Note by Compiler: Elected deacon 1867, resigned 1871. Re-elected 1880, and still in 
office. 

Mary S. Rice, profession. 

Richard W. Rice, profession. 

William A. Spooner, ) First Churchj Amherst . 

Eliza A. Spooner, ) 

Mary Bemis, Congregational church, South Wilbraham. 

Maria O. Fuller (Winslow), East Congregational Church, 
Ware. 

Thomas S. Aitcheson, profession. * 

Mrs. Abigail L. Bowen, Congregational church, Lee. 

James L. Root, Congregational church, Conway. 

Sarah C. Higley, Congregational church, East Longmeadow. 


Mar. 3. 

May 3. 
July 7. 


Nov. 1. 


'Rodeiick Buit, ) Congregational church, North Wilbraham. 
Mariette Burt, ) 6 & 


♦Note by Compiler: Elected deacon 1865. 

Sarah R. Burt, Congregational church, North Wilbraham. 

Lewis Foster, ) Q ori g re g a ti oria i church, Windsor, Vt. 
Mary P. Foster, ) 


1862. 

Jan. 3. Pardon H. Derby, Beneficent Congregational Church, Provi- 
dence, R. I. 


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119 


Feb. 28. Solomon S. Judd, Congregational church, Southampton. 

July 5. Mary A. Tracy, Congregational church, Agawam. 

Sarah M. Deitz, First Presbyterian Church, Cohoes, N. Y. 
Louisa E. Deitz, First Presbyterian Church, Cohoes, N. Y. 

Note by Compiler: Afterwards Mrs. Frank Thompson and missionary to Sandwich 
Islands. 

Susan M. Sturtevant, Congregational church, Vernon, Conn. 
Elisabeth F. Cooley (Phelps), Pynchon Street Methodist 
Church, City. 

Benjamin W. Wright, First Presbyterian Church, Marquette, 
Mich. 

Charles H. Morris, profession. 

Richard Bliss, Jr., profession. 

Sept. 7. Noah Sagendorph, First Congregational Church, Monson. 

John C. Spooner, > profession . 

Eliza Jane Spooner, ) 

Oct. 29. George B. Bright, profession (on sick bed at home). 

Nov. 3. Asa D. Gilmore, 1 pro(ession . 

Ann L. Gilmore, \ 

« Sarah L. Rowland (Dyer), profession. 

Mary S. Rowland, profession. 

Mary F. Burt, profession. 

William Allis, profession. 

Arabella G. Simonds, North Church, New Haven, Conn. 

Note by Compiler: Whole number of members, 365; males, 92; Sunday-school, 317. 


1863. 

Jan. 2. William A. Chapin, Second Congregational Church, St. Johns- 
bury, Vt. 

Elisabeth D. Chapin, Second Congregational Church, St. 
Johnsbury, Vt. 

Mary Tucker, Salem Street Congregational Church, Wor- 
* cester. 

Sarah G. Morgan, wife E., Fourth Congregational Church, 
Hartford, Conn. 

Elizabeth Perkins (Mosely), South Church, City. 

Emily F. Mills, widow John, profession. 

Emma F. Crossett (Mack), profession. 

Elizabeth Lee Adams, profession. 

Mar. 1. Lucy R. Gowdy, profession. 

Lucinda W. Bartlett, Congregational church, Southampton. 
Susan N. Richards, First Presbyterian Church, Jordan, Mass. 
William K. Richards, First Presbyterian Church, Jordan, 
MaSS . 

Cornelia Richards, First Presbyterian Church, Jordan, Mass. 
Elizabeth N. Wight, wife Emerson, Congregational church, 
Walpole. 


120 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


July 3. 

5. 

Sept. 4. 
Oct. 30. 
31. 

Note ] 

Jan. 1. 

Mar. 4. 

March 4. 

May 1. 


Emma E. Foster, profession. 

Eleanor S. Merriam (Woods), South Church, City. 

Mrs. Harriet Segur, church West Killingly, Conn. 

Lucy Stebbins, Congregational church, Granby. 

Abby Hebard, Broadway Cong. Church, Norwich, Conn. 

Rufus Chandler, > Congregational church, Monson. 

Anna Chandler, ) 

O. F. Pinney, | c on g re ga,tional church, Spencer. 

Mary Ann Pinney, ) 

James Alexander, 

Nancy A. Alexander, 

Charlotte K. Stevens, profession. 

Joseph C. Adams, ) Congregational church, Holden. 

Anna M. Adams, ) Congregational church, Westminster. 
Mary O. Davis, Congregational church, Agawam. 

Frank Thompson, Presbyterian church, Cohoes, N. Y. 

Julia C. Merrick, wife F. T., profession (on sick bed at home). 
■ Compiler: Whole number of members, 360. 


profession. 


1864. 

Ezra E. Adams, > Congregational church, Barre, Vt. 
Cornelia E. Adams, ^ 

Susan E. Covell, wife C. L., Congregational church, Lisbon, 
Conn. 

Temperance Caldwell, widow Jeremiah, Presbyterian church, 
Schenectady, N. Y. 

Sally Brown, widow Edwin, Congregational church, Hub- 
bardston. 

Frances R. Buckland, Congregational chutch, Ellington, Conn. 
Emma McKenzie, profession. 

Ellen M. Cooley, “ 

Harriet E. Richardson, widow H. A., profession. 

Addie L. Day, profession. 

Susan I. Caldwell, profession. 

Laura P. Sykes, “ 

Emma L. Colton (Hartshorn), profession. 

Elizabeth S. Warriner, profession. 

Wm. B. Phelps, profession. 

Frank H. Foster, “ 

Asa Frost, Congregational Church, Marlboro, N. H. 

Julia A. Allen, wife E. G., First Congregational Church, North 
Adams. 

Harriet Willis, First Congregational Church, Meriden, Conn. 
Elenora E. Goodwin, wife Wm., First Congregational Church, 
Meriden, Conn. 

Sarah O. Avery, widow Alex H., First Congregational Church, 
Brookline, Mass. 


July 3. 


Dec. 2. 


Jan. 1. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 121 


David H. Webster, > 

Levia Webster, j North Congregational Church, City. 

Fannie L. Webster, North Congregational Church, City. 
Jeremiah J. Young, > 

Mary Ann Young, \ Second Congregational Church, Palmer. 

Rodney Ayres, Congregational church, Granby. 

Adelia R. Burt, Congregational church, Otisco, N. Y. 

Mary A. Briggs, profession. 

Rebecca J. Briggs, profession. 

Martha C. Calhoun, profession. 

Emma L. Terry, profession. 

Martha I. Segur. 

Harriet A. Sykes (Barbour), profession. 

Julia S. Ward, profession. 

Julia F. Hubbard, profession. 

Sarah W. Blake, profession. 

Edwin R. Tucker, profession. 

James S. Adams, profession. 

Thomas P. Vaille, profession. 

Edwin O. Childs, profession. 

Arthur S. Burt, profession. 

Theodore W. Chaffee, profession. 

Frank S. Newell, profession. 

Albert W. Longley, profession. 

Otis Longley, ) Union Congregational Church, Westford. 

Nancy L. Longley, ) 

srAtr;, s 

Jennie R. Wenzell, Congregational church, Ashland. 

Mrs. Laura King, Congregational church, Vernon, Conn. 
Elizabeth Mills, Presbyterian church, Great Bend, Pa. 

Mary I. Fiske, Congregational church, Ludlow. 

Julia Morris, Congregational church, Somers, Conn. 

Eliza Butts, First Congregational Church, So. Hadley. 

Louise C. Nutting, First Congregational Church, West Spring- 
field. 

Henry Bliss, Presbyterian church, Schaghticoke, N. Y. 

Harriet Blakeslee, widow, profession. 

Mary A. Fiske, profession. 

Martha S. Cutler, profession. 

Emma L. Wellman, profession. 

Henrietta F. Graves, profession. 

Lizzie C. Fuller, profession. 

* Alonzo Nutting, profession. 

1865. 

Carrie G. Hall. 

Jennie L. Pease, Congregational church, Worthington, Mass. 


122 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Susan E. Filley, Congregational church, Bloomfield, Conn. 
Eunice R. Filley, Congregational church, Bloomfield, Conn. 
Hannah Bunker ^ North Congregational Church, City. 
*Nelson C. Newell, 


Mary M. Newell, j 


[- First Congregational Church, Longmeadow. 


*Note bv Compiler: Elected deacon, but declined. 

Charlotte M. Sessions, First Congregational Church, Long- 
meadow. 

*Samuel R. Newell, ) First Congregational Church, Long- 
Augusta Newell, y meadow. 


*Note by Compiler: Elected deacon 1S71. Died 1878. 


Feb. 2. 
March 3. 


May 5. 


June 30. 


July 2. 
Sept. 3. 
Nov. 5. 

Nov. 3. 


5. 


Isabella P. Newell, First Congregational Church, Longmeadow. 
Mary A. Russell (Deming), First Congregational Church, 
Longmeadow. 

Lucy Bartlett Stebbins, First Congregational Church, Long- 
meadow. 

Lois E. Clark, profession. 

Fannie B. Bunker, profession. 

Clara F. Holland] [Congregational church, Belchertown. 

Catharine Sears, Edwards Church, Northampton. 

Mary D. Vose, First Congregational Church, Westfield. 

Carrie Gardner, profession. 

^Hce Colton )n, } Congregational church, West Granville. 

Chas. H. Smith, ) ~ ,. . . . T _ „ 

Sarah E. Smith, f Congregational <*urch, Hadley. 

A. J. Plumer, } ~ . , • ' 

Eliza A Plumer [ Con g r cgational church, Indian Orchard. 

Ann E. Pearl, Congregational church, Otis. 

Mary E. Avery, profession. 

Laura S. Frost (Perry), profession. 

Chas. W. Clark, First Congregational Church, Westfield. 

Sarah R. Clark, First Congregational Church, Westfield. 

Joseph Butler, ) 0 

Almira Butler. \ Second Congregational Church, Holyoke. 
Nancy F. Whiting, Union Church, Worcester. 

Mary Ann Ives, Church of Jesus Christ, New Harmony, Pike 
county, Mo. 

Mary Ann Roberts, Church of Jesus Christ, New Harmony, 
Pike county, Mo. 

Charles G. Rice, profession. 

Charles E. Plumb, profession. ** 


Note by Compiler: Total membership, 429. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


123 


Jan. 5. 

7. 

March 2. 

May 6. 

5. 

June 29. 


Aug. 31. 

Nov. 2. 


1866. 


David A. Brown, ) ^ p Church Hartford Conn. 

Jean Brown, ) 

Lucy M. Bly, wife Homer, profession. 

Lizzie Flagg, profession. 

William A. Pease, profession. 

William F. Adams, profession. 

William H. Bliss, profession. 

George P. Marsh, profession. 

Charlotte A. Titcomb, First Congregational Church, Westfield. 
Julia A. Rogers, wife Edw. C., First Presbyterian Church, Wil- 
mington, N. C. 

lnn°EHza S Wight, [ First Congregational Church, Sturbridge. 
M. Louisa Whitmore, Congregational church, Webster. 

Susan Smith, wife Alfred, Congregational church, Dalton. 
Emma J. Atwood, wife Charles M., Congregational church, 
Dalton. 

Elihu J. Sikes, First Congregational Church, Ludlow. 

Jane M. Phelps, widow, profession. 

Ella M. Lane, profession. 

Jennie A. Shaw, profession. 

Catharine J. Donelson, profession. 

John B. Whitmore, profession. 

Henry W. Cowles, profession. 

William D. Bates, profession. 

Alice Sophia Ilsley, Plymouth Congregational Church, Chelsea. 
Sophronia H. Throop, widow, First Congregational Church, 
Agawam. 

Hannah M. Baldwin, First Congregational Church, Litchfield, 


Conn. 

William C. Johnson, 
Velona Esther Johnson 


\ Olivet Church, City. 
> ) 


Martha R. Barker, Methodist Episcopal church, Dalton. 


Anna A. Willey, profession. 

Charles S. Marsh, profession. 

Harriet Irene Harwood, Congregational church, Granby. 

Abby M. Clark, widow, First Congregational Church, Newark, 


N. J. 


Eli S. Hoadley, j Firgt Church 0 f Christ, Hartford, Conn. 
Tirzah L. Hoadley, ) , ~ i 

Ellen A. Chellis, wife Benton, Congregational church, Col- 

Chester, Vt* 

Juliett E. Parsons, wife Harmon, Methodist Episcopal church, 
Colchester, Vt. 

L. Milton Marsh, 7 Haven street Church, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Julia E. Marsh, ) 


124 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Julia E. Marsh, Haven Street Church, Milwaukee, Wis. 

John M. Smith, First Presbyterian Church, Boston. 

Note by Compiler : Total membership, 447. 

1867. 

January 6. Charles W. Rice, \ Pynchon Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 
Lucy A. Rice, ) City. 

Carrie J. R. Winans, Pynchon Street Methodist Episcopal 
Church, City. 

Betsey Ann Harrington, wife A. F., First Congregational 
Church, Pittsfield. 

*James L. Johnson, ) First Cong. Church, Lisbon, Conn. 

Sarah H. Johnson, ) College Street Church, New Haven. 

♦Note by Compiler : Elected Sunday-school superintendent 1876 and 1881 ; elected 
deacon 1884, and still in service. 

Edmund R. Wolcott, ") 

Elizabeth Wolcott, f Congregational church, Feeding Hills. 

James H. Osgood, > TT . „ . , 

Jane T. Osgood, j Union Church, Worcester. 

Betsey K. Matthews, Union Church, Worcester. 

Harvey E. Moseley, ) Q on g re g a ti 0 nal church, Wilbraham. 
Sarah R. Moseley* > 

William W. Cole, Presbyterian church, Oaks Corners, N. Y. 
Emily A. Baker (Newell), profession. 

Alice J. Davis (Tobin), profession. 

Lucy K. Davis (Bugbee), profession. 

Mattie A. Goodrich, profession. 

Carrie L. Moseley, profession. 

Nellie B. Moseley, profession. 

Albert S. Tobin, profession. 

Lorin M. Cummings, profession. 

Mar. 1. Mary Parmenter, widow, Union Church, Worcester. 

Julia L. Howard, wife Frank, Park Street Church, Boston. 
Eliza Williams, Congregational church, Dana. 

Frances K. Kingsley, wife John, South Church, City. 

Albert J. Harrington, First Congregational Church, Pitts- 
field. 

May 5. Richard Cecil Barrett, ) Congregational church, Somers, 
Catharine H. Barrett, > Conn. 

Mary G. Barber, widow, North Church, City. 

Ambrose E. Doiman, > Q ori g re g a tion al church, Belchertown. 
Mary Ann Dorman, ) 

Wilson Spear, ) Evan. Cong. Church, Orange. 

Clara D. Spear (Stebbins), £ Church of Christ, Sunderland. 
Newton I. Hawley, ) Cong, church, Homer, N. Y. 

Marion McKnight Hawley, ) South Church, City. 

Maida^J ^Lane ne, } Second Congregational Church, Troy, Vt. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


125 


Lvman Hitchcock, ) „ t , _ „ 

Dorcas Hitchcock, f First Con S' Churoh ’ South HadIe y- 
Adelaide Hitchcock (White), wife E. P., First Congregational 
Church, South Hadley. 

Emeline Hendrick, Congregational church, Chicopee Falls. 
George Crabtree, Second Congregational Church, Portland, 


Me.‘ 


P. S. Warren, Congregational church, Eastford, Conn. 
Fanny Louisa Clapp, widow, profession. 

Eunice A. Townsley, widow, profession. 

Lina B. Crabtree, wife George, profession. 

A nn T. Parmenter, wife Charles, profession. 

Ellen Hallock, wife Charles H., profession. 

Elizabeth D. Remington, wife James L., profession. 
Ellen M. Rice, profession. 

Pamelia Hitchcock, profession. 

Mary Hitchcock, profession. 

Isaac R. Palmer, profession. 

Charles E. Olmstead, profession. 

May 19. Grace H. Aitcheson, profession. 

July 7. Abijah W. Chapin, ) profession . 

.*« Elizabeth H. Chapin, ) 

Emma Maria Bowman, profession. 

Edith Derby, wife Pardon H., profession. 

Martha E. Nye, wife George, profession. 

Lucretia M. Nasb, profession. 

Sarah Jane Goodman, profession. 

Cornelia K. Bryant, profession. 

Jennie M. Wood (Paine), profession. 

Mary A. Hancock, profession. 

Augusta Tileston, profession. 

Louisa H. Avery (Lincoln), profession. 

Henrietta A. Willis (Wilcox), profession. 

Kate A. Steisney, profession. 

Albert S. Fox, profession, 

Austin L. Leonard, profession. 


Note by Compiler: Elected deacon 1874. 

Henry Edson Dorman, profession. 

Stephen A. Sargeant, profession. 

Frank A. Bartlett, profession. 

William K. Rice, Center Church, Brattleboro, Vt. 

Katie M. Rice, Center Church, Brattleboro, Vt. 

Lucelia D. Rice, Center Church, Brattleboro, Vt. 

Miranda Greenleaf, wife J. F., Second Congregational church, 
Rockville, Conn. 


126 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Tirzah Ann Hitchcock, wife Joseph, First Congregational 
Church, Westfield. 

Ellen H. Morse, East Congregational Church, Ware. 

Mary Wood, wife Lyman, North Church, City. 

Susan Van Voorhees, First Church, Longmeadow. 

Helen A. Fox, Congregational church, Montague. 


Edwin L. Knight, 
Harriet E. Knight, 


) Second Congregational Church, Will- 
) iamsport. 

Charles T. Lyon, I Congregational church, Brandon, Vt. 
Nellie C. Lyon, > 


*John Giles, 
Mary A. Giles, 


t Congregational church, Hanover, Ohio. 


♦Note by Compiler: Elected deacon November, 1882. 

John F. Lamberton, Pearl Street Church, Hartford, Conn. 

Aug. 30. Delina Ferry, First Congregational Church, Granby. 

Orrin E. Pease, First Congregational Church, Granby. 

Clara H. Childs, profession. 

Earl Swift Adams, profession. 

Nov. 1. Ossian Bugbee, profession. 

Mary L. Warner, wife Alfred, profession. 

Horace S. Newell, ) 

Cornelia M. Newell, ) First Con £- Church ’ Longmeadow. 

Catharine B. Newell, First Congregational Church, Long- 
meadow. 

Ellen P. Newell (Ingersoll), First Congregational Church, 
Longmeadow. 

Phebe A. Richardson, Congregational church, Greenfield, 
N. H. 

Phebe A. Cooper (Eldridge), Second Presbyterian Church, 
Mendham, N. J. 

Elvira M. Porter, First Congregational Church, Rawsonville, 
Lorain County, Ohio. 

Herbert P. Porter, First Congregational Church, Rawsonville, 
Lorain County, Ohio. 

Ellen E. Bugbee, wife Ossian, Congregational church, Mans- 
field, Conn. 

Julia A. Allis, Second Congregational Church, Rockville 
Conn. 


Note by Compiler: Additions this year, 107; by profession. 43. Total members, 522. 


1868. 

Amos Shaw, ) First Congregational Church, West Springfield, 
Acsah Shaw, £ Mass. 

C. R. Whittemore, ) First Congregational Church, West 
Martha A. Whittemore, \ Springfield, Mass. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


127 


March 1. 


May 3. 


Julia M. Sullivan, First Congregational Church, West Spring- 
field, Mass. 

Calvin Perry, > 0 ... ., 

Harriet C. Perry, } Southbrld S e - 

Oliver H. Perry, Southbridge. 

John Kent, ) ~ ... 

A1 . . ’ , > West Granville. 

Almira A. Kent, ) 

Orpha P. Kent, West Granville. 

Helen M. Kent, West Granville. 

Mary Ann Hollister, First Congregational Church, Long- 
meadow, Mass. 

Frederic H. Judd, ) w „ 

Elizabeth A. Judi f WeSt Hampton - 
Harriet A. Judd, West Hampton. 

Charles L. Simonds, ) Olivet Congregational Church, Spring- 
Sarah E. Simonds, \ field, Mass. 

Nathan L. Buck, ) p res byterian church, B. Falls, N. Y. 
Elmira S. Buck, ) 

Delia Darrow, widow, First Congregational Church, Chicago, 

111 . 


Sarah Merritt, Otis. 

Electa Eltliea Hopkins, First Congregational Church, Aga- 
wam, Mass. 

Elsie M. G. Barton, First Congregational Church, North 
Brookfield, Mass. 

Lavinia Hunter, Congregational church, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 

Miranda C. Rice, Center Congregational Church, Brattleboro, 
Yt. 

Wealthy Alden, wife Caleb, First Congregational Church, 
Westfield, Mass. 

Mary Adams Birnie, Reformed Protestant church, Hastings, 
N. Y. 

Frances C. Billings, Congregational church, Somers, Conn. 

Julia Cornelia Billings, Congregational church, Somers, Conn. 

Ada Frances Billings, Congregational church, Somers, Conn. 

Lovisa H. Dumbleton, profession. 

Emily E. Wolcott, profession. 

Tirzah H. Snow, profession. 

Tillie W. Duffield, profession. 

Ellen M. Eldridge, wife Hiram, profession. 

Elvina Bingham, profession. 

Frederick O. Vaille, profession. 

Charles L. Chapin, > Congregational church, Warren. 

Abby Chapin, ) 

Frances M. Lombard, wife Orrin N., Congregational church, 
South Wilbraham, Mass. 

Lavinia T. Small, Congregational church, Stafford Springs, 
Conn. 


128 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


July 3. Maria E. Leonard, wife Austin L., profession. 

Mary J. Mayott, wife Lafayette, profession. 

Nov. 1. Mary Jane Clark, "profession. 

Hannah Moody, First Presbyterian Church, Hartford, Conn. 
Note by Compiler : Total additions this year, 46; by profession, 10. Membership, 547. 


1869. 

Jan. 3. Elizabeth Havens, wife P. V. B., profession. 

Sarah L. Havens, profession. 

Alice S. Graves, profession. 

Hattie J. Rice, profession. 

Mary E. Chapman, profession. 

Helen Morris, profession. 

Frederick H. Rice, profession. 

Ann A. Gouch. wife George, South Congregational Church, 
Springfield, Mass. 

Mary D. Waterman, wife Daniel M., South Congregational 
Church, Springfield, Mass. 

Edward Tower, | jr j rs t Congregational Church, Chicopee, Mass. 
Mary Tower, ) 

Henry J. Fuller, > Congregational church, Somers, Conn. 
Mary L. Fuller, ) 

Phebe A. Richards, widow William Henry, 1st, First Congrega- 
tional Church, West Springfield, Mass. 

Mary Foster, widow William, Congregational church, Aga- 
wam, Mass. 

Frank H. Foster, Congregational church, Agawam, Mass. 
Charles L. Goodhue, Congregational church, Agawam, Mass. 
Henry E. Stacy, ) First Congregational Church, Hunting- 
Almira E. Stacy, ) ton. 

Frederick Harwood, ) Pearl St. Church, Hartford, Conn. 
Winnifred H. Harwood, ) Sec. Cong. Ch., Manchester, Conn. 
Annie Henry (Allen), Presbyterian church, Thompsonville, 
Conn. 

Charlotte A. Vinton, First Congregational Church, South Had- 
ley. 

John M. Chapin, Church of Christ, Yale College, New Ha- 
ven. 

Edward F. Clark, > Congregational church, Petersham, 
Marcia J. Clark, \ Mass. 

March 7. Amos Whiting, Union Church, Worcester, Mass. 

E. M. Parmelee, First Church of Christ, Longmeadow, Mass. 
John B. Woods, } Congregational church, Belchertown, 
Harriet N. Woods, ) Mass. 

Rosella W. L. Davis, First Congregational Church, South 
Adams. 

Isabella H. Ladd, First Congregational Church, South Adams. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


129 


May 2. 

June 24. 

Note 
July 2. 

Sept. 3. 

Nov. 5. 

Note 

Jan. 2. 

Mar. 6. 


Sarah S. Ladd (Harris), North Congregational Church, Wil- 
braham. 

Lizzie M. Ladd, North Congregational Church, Wilbraham. 
^Edwin J. Cushman, ) First Cong. Church, Springfield, Ohio. 
Rena S. Cushman, ) profession. 

Emma J. Hammond, profession. 

Anna D. Gouch, profession. 

Laura E Folsom, ) profession . 

Gilman Folsom, ) 

Electa Wetherell, w. Samuel, profession. 

Hiram Eldredge, profession. 

Edward C. Burrett (or Barrett), profession. 

Fanny W. Walker, Congregational church, Belchertown. 
Anna M. Howard, w. Luther, Congregational church, Gill. 
Fanny E. M. Clapp, wife Edward, Congregational church, 
Manchester, Yt. 

O. B. Wight, > Q on g re g a tional church, South Hadley Falls. 
Mrs. Wight, > 

by Compiler: Joined in 1851; names not recorded until 1869, through oversight. 

Josiah C. Colton, P . ^ , 

Nancy A Colton > First Congregational Church, Longmeadow. 

Charles A. Houghton, Congregational church, Williamstown. 
AzroB. Gibbs, ) profession . 

Betsey E. Gibbs, ) 

George B. Gouch, profession. 

Edwin L. Fiske, profession. 

Martha R. Robinson, Orthodox Congregational Church, Pe- 
tersham. 

Catharine L. Morse, Congregational church, Somers, Conn. 
Lucy Stephenson, Union Congregational Church, Greenfield, 
N. H. 

Mattie A. Converse (Clark), Broadway Congregational Church, 
Norwich, Conn. 

R. E. Davison, church in Amherst College. 
by Compiler: Additions this year, 60; by profession, 19. Membership, 569. 



Emeline M. Chapin, wife Charles L., profession. 

William Ashton, profession. 

Alice A. Burt, wife Arthur, Second Congregational Church, 
Greenfield. 

Mary O. Dickman, profession. 

Charles L. Chapin, profession. 

Moses W. Lyman, profession. 

Edwin Farrar, ) profession. 

Louise C. Farrar, ) Congregational church, Winchendon. 

9 


130 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, STRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Mary A. Chapin, widow, First Congregational Church, South 
Hadley Falls. 

Amelia W. Granger, Second Congregational Church, Chicopee. 
Edmund M. Pease, M. D., Fourteenth St. Presbyterian Church, 
New York. 


Note by Compiler: Ordained as missionary to Micronesia in 1877, and still in service. 

William B. Parker, Congregational church, Greenville, Conn. 
May 1. Joseph Butler, ) Second Congregational Church, Holyoke, 
Amelia Butler, > Mass. 

Nellie C. Batchelder, wife Perkins, Congregational church, 
Southwick. 

Ada C. Johnson, wife David F., Franklin St. Congregational 
Church, Manchester, N. H. 

Mary W. Chamberlin, wife R. S., North Cong. Church, City. 
Samantha A. Sabine, First Congregational Church, Woburn. 
Sarah Williams, widow, profession. 

Anna J. Sargeant, wife T. H., profession. 

Gratia R. Chapin, profession. 

Eva J. Hendrick, profession. 

Charles H. Knight, profession. 

CQrnie S. Newell, profession. 

Harry W. Shillingford, profession. 

Francis C. Walker, profession. 

Simeon Wilbert Carroll, profession. 

July 3. Susan C. Bancroft, profession. 

Ella K. Hawes, profession. 

Ella L. Wight, profession. 

WffliamMill, ), ett ScotIand . 

Julia Mill, ) 

Harlan Bucklani, Presbyterian church, Indianapolis, Ind. 

Julia Wood Pease, wife O. E., Bapt. church, E. Longmeadow. 

Norma E. Bliss, wife William, Cong, church, Somers, Conn. 

H. Amelia Greenleaf, Cong, church, Whitewater, Wis. 

Sept. 2. Charles B. Holton, ) , TT . _ 

c? i_ t» tt ia. r Mount Vernon Church, Boston. 

Sarah P. Holton, > 

S. F. Pratt, widow, Evangelical Congregational church, Athol. 
Helen M. Pratt, Evangelical Congregational church, Athol. 
Martha H. Bond, widow, Methodist church, Durham, Conn. 

4. Maggie Sullivan, profession. 

Nov. 6. Aaron P. Wight, profession. 

Andrew M. Wight, profession. 

Frank Herbert Coffran, profession. 

4. Mary T. Dunbar, First Cong. Church, Windsor, Vt. 

William J. Rhees, ) First Presbyterian Church, Washington 
R. F. Rhees, ) D. C. 

Hannah Armstrong, widow, East Cong. Church, Ware. 

Mary Shields Handyside, Union Presbyterian Church, Scot- 
land. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


131 


Anna M. Warren (Theis), Second Congregational Church, 
Woodstock, Vt. 

Hiram Worden, First Congregational Church, Westfield. 

Note by Compiler: Additions, 51; by profession, 22. Rev. Mr. Parsons dismissed by 
council Nov. 7, 1870, to take effect Nov. 15, 1870. 


“ Unto Him that washed us from our sins in His own blood, and hath made us kings 
and priests unto God and His Father; unto Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. 
Amen.” 


REV. HENRY MARTYN PARSONS. 


BY THE COMPILER. 

The seventh pastor of the First Church was ordained to the minis- 
try and installed over this Church Nov. 15, 1854, having just graduated 
from the Connecticut Theological Institute. His classical studies 
were finished at Yale in 1848. He was born at East Haddam, Nov. 
13, 1828. Nov. 15, 1870, exactly sixteen years after his settlement 
here, he was dismissed to accept a call as associate pastor of the 
Union Church in Boston. His present charge is at Toronto, Can- 
ada. 

Mr. Parsons’s ministry covered the years of the Rebellion, during 
which Springfield grew rapidly in population. The Armory and 
Water Shops were working with double sets of hands, and the 
greatest activity pervaded all channels of trade and occupation. 
Those were the times of marvelous excitement. The boys in blue 
marched off to the front carrying all our hearts with them; reports 
of defeat or news of victory stunned and elated us by turns. Amidst 
all these intense and distracting conditions, Mr. Parsons held the at- 
tention of the people to the great truths and business of religion with 
fidelity and success ; and the membership steadily and largely aug- 
mented. 

The frankness of Mr. Parsons, his unusual readiness and genial 
manners, rendered him thoroughly acceptable to all, and especially 
endeared him to the young. His Sabbath-school labors and Bible- 
class instruction were popular and instructive to the very highest 
degree. 

His resignation of the pastorate was accepted witli great reluc- 
tance and general regret. 


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FIRST CIIURQU OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Jan. 1. 


March 5. 


May 7. 


July 2. 


Sept. '3. 
Nov. 5. 
Sept. 3. 


Nov. 5. 


1871. 


Mrs. Felicia Burt, First Cong. Church, Northampton. 

Fanny ^Pierce, } Calvinistic chu «*. Fitchburg. 

Ma^yWarriMr" 111 ^’ } Congregational church, Warren. 

Miss Eliza E. Bliss, New England Church, Chicago. 

Mrs. Mary W. Hodskins, profession. 

Mrs. L. Augusta Fuller, Cong, church, Somers, Conn. 

Miss Mattie E. A. Hastings, First Church, Amherst. 

Mrs. Lucy M. Bidwell, South Baptist Church, Hartford, Conn. 
A. M. .Galpin, profession. 

John P. Stewart, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, 
Pa. 


Josiah Hayward, 7 Congregational church, East Long- 

Amanda S. Hayward, i meadow. 

Miss Jennie A. Holt, Congregational church, West Brookfield. 
Mrs. Mary E. Walker, North Congregational Church, City. 

Mrs. E. A. Reed, First Pres. Church, Lansingburg, N. Y. 

James E. Turner, 7 Congregational church, South Wilbra- 
Sarah A. Turner, > ham. 

Mrs. Jane M. Miner, Congregational church, West Granville. 
Mrs. Martha Colby, profession. 

Mrs. Elizabeth P. Cloyes, profession. 

Cora N. Pynehon. 

Emma E. Hayden, Congregational church, Collinsville, Conn. 
Charlotte E. Ashley, First Cong. Church, West Springfield. 
Mrs. Amarett Chandler, profession. 

Mrs. Sarah L. Bailey, profession. 

Elizabeth Sims, profession. 

Charles F. Stebbins, profession. 

Mary P. Emerson, First Presbyterian Church, Boston. 
Ebenezer Stebbins, First Cong. Church, Middletown, Conn. 

Samuel A. Wood, 7 North Congregational Church, City. 
Harriet Wood, > 

Harriet S. Wood, North Congregational Church, City. 

Francis W. Shepherd, 7 North Congregational Church, City. 
Delia Shepherd, > 

Mrs. Elizabeth G. Boynton, Cong, church, West Brookfield. 
Miss M. Lizzie Boynton, Cong, church, West Brookfield. 

Mrs. Mary Ann Gilbert, Cong, church, West Brookfield. 

Mrs. Ellen M. Purple, Congregational church, Conway. 
Edward Craigee, 7 St. John’s Church, Dundee, Scot- 
Ann Gilson Craigee, 3 land. 

John C. Avery, Congregational church, Chapin, Iowa. 

Mrs. Caroline E. Adams, profession. 

Mrs. Lizzie Stockbridge Whitcomb, profession. 


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Mrs. Maria Louisa White, profession. 

Percy Lyman Hoadley, profession. 

Note by Compiler: Additions, 48; by profession, 13. Rev. Mr. Reed ordained and in- 
stalled June 14, 1871. 


1872. 


Jan. 7. Mrs. Clara J. Todd, profession. 

Madora Crosby Vaille, profession. 

Lizzie Viola Rice, profession. 

Agnes Virginia Earle, profession. 

Fanny Augusta Terry, profession. 

Minnie Amelia Dickinson, profession. 

Elizabeth Sophronia Firmin, profession. 

Erastus Alvin Barrett, profession. • 

Mrs. Harriet S. Wright, Church of the Ascension, New York. 
Mrs. Lemira P. Pelton, First Cong. Church, Morrisania, N. Y. 
Frank Farrin, Congregational church, Fremont, Neb. 

James Weir Mason, Second Pres. Church, Albany, N. Y. 

Mrs. Sarah L. Mason, Second Pres. Church, Albany, N. Y. 
Euphemia P. Mason, Second Pres. Church, Albany, N. Y. 
Sarah L. W. Mason, Second Pres. Church, Albany, N. Y. 
George E. Todd, Pres, church, New Boston, N. H. 

March 3. Mrs. Henrietta Schmuch, profession. 

Mrs. Abby Chaffee Dickinson, profession. 

Effie L. Chapin, profession. 

Harriet C. Colton, profession. 

Charles L. Whittemore, profession. 

Mrs. Margaret Dart, First Cong. Church, Norwalk, Conn. 

Mrs. Elizabeth H. Swetland, First Pres. Church, Middlefield 
Center, N. Y. . 

Mrs. Harriet R. Learned, First Cong. Church, West Meriden, 
Conn. 

May 5. William Fay Hopkins, profession. 

Maria R. Clark, profession. 

Laban Parmelee, profession. 

William Parsons Gleason, First Cong. Church, New Braintree. 
William Henry Parker, Pres, church, Bridgehampton, N. Y. 
Henry Lovejoy Ross, Cong, church, West Brookfield. 

Marcia Colton, Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. 

Mar y 1 J ^Graut^ Ut * } FirSt Con S re £ ational Church, Pittsfield. 
July 7. Niel Blue, > » 

Elizabeth Blue, r P, '° feSS10n - 
Walter R. Webster, profession. 

Mrs. Ellen C. Clegg, First Cong. Church, Bellows Falls, Vt. 
Mrs. Caroline C. Burbank, First Cong. Church, Winchester, 
N. H. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


135 


Sept.l. 
Nov. 3. 


Jan. 5. 


♦Note 

1886. 

March 2. 


May 4. 


Avery J. Smith, ) Memorial Presbyterian Church, New 
Harriet M. Smith, £ York City. 

Mrs. Mary S. Longley, Pres, church, Ellicott’s Mills, Md. 
George E. Martin, Congregational church, South Boston. 

Mrs. Loella Lathrop, Cong, church, South Wilbraham. 

Dr. Marshall Calkins ) ,, ™ 

Adelaide A. Calkins, > J 

Louisa Ide Macfayden, profession. 


1873. 

Roderick Ashley, profession. 

Mrs. Mary E. Kempt, Union Congregational Church, Boston. 
Theodore Meserole, Franklin Ave. Pres. Church, Brooklyn, N. Y, 
Rachel A. Miller, First Congregational Church. Westfield. 

Mrs. Ella S. Alden, First Congregational Church, Westfield. 
*Joseph L. Shipley, } North A venue Congregational Church, 
Margaret H. Shipley, S Cambridge. 

Compiler: Elected deacon in 1876; re-elected 1882, and resigned; re-chosen 

Mrs. Ruhema C. Call, profession. 

Ruema C. Call, profession. 

Nettie H. Dumbleton, profession. 

Mary J. Alexander, profession. 

Mabel M. Barney, profession. 

Caroline H. Newell, profession. 

Alice E. Newell, profession. 

Elam Stockbridge, profession. 

Mrs. Elvira Cooley, Congregational church, Soutliwick. 

Mrs. Caroline C. Talcott, South Cong. Church, New Britain, 
Conn. 

Mrs. Amanda Me Kelvey, North Ave. Cong. Church, Cambridge. 
Mrs. Barbara Meserole, Franklin Avenue Presbyterian Church, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

John Clark, Stone Street Pres. Church, Watertown, N. Y. 

Geo. A. Homer, profession. 

Henry B. Moore, ) profession . 

Katie L. Moore, ) 

Mrs. Roselle P. Moore, profession. 

Mrs. Cynthia Sawyer, profession. 

Mary F. Sessions, profession. 

Ruth A. Rockwell, profession. 

Nellie P. Buck, profession. 

Carrie A. Richards, profession. 

Mrs. Elizabeth M. McIntyre, Central Presbyterian Church, N. 
Y. City. 

Mrs. Fannie W. Homer, First Cong. Church, Warren. 

Roscius C. Newell, f First Cong. Church, Mittineague. 

Sarah A. Newell, f First Cong. Church, Agawam. 


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Mrs. Angie B. Case, First Congregational Church. Cedar Falls, 
Iowa. 

Mrs. Lucy Wildes, North Cong. Church, Amherst. 

“ Phebe A. Gates, Olivet Church, City. 

“ Carrie M. Ladd, Olivet Church, City. 

“ Rebecca Spooner, Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. 

Helen M. Baker, First Congregational Church, South Wind- 
sor, Conn. 

July 6. Mrs. Phoebe L. Spelman, profession. 

B. Frank Steele, ) First Congregational Church, Leavenworth, 
Emily F. Steele, Kan. 

Myron E. Barber, First Pres. Church, Scranton, Pa. 

Nov. 2. Mrs. Sophia H. Ring, profession. 

Jane W. Hitchcock, profession. 

Emily W. Fairman, First Cong. Church, Northampton. 

Mrs. Luthera F. Norton, First Cong. Church, Northampton. 

William H. Haile, 1 Orthodox church, Hinsdale, N. H. 
Amelia C. -Haile, ) 

George W. Guilford, > Congregational church, Cummington. 
Eliza T. Guilford, J 8 6 
Note by Compiler: Additions, 51; by profession, 21; membership, 617. 


1874. 

Jan. 4. Frank Herbert Whipple, profession. 

Albert M. Gleason, profession. 

Charles H. Newell, profession. 

Albert E. Williams, Second Congregational Church, West 
Newton. 

Mrs. H. A. Braman (Maria), First Congregational Church, Suf- 
field, Conn. 

March. Clara E. Lyman, profession. 

Mrs. Eva Maria Chase, profession. 

“ Lizzie F. English, profession. 

“ Lillian M. Standish, First Congregational Church, West 
Springfield. 

Jude R. Buck, Cong, church, West Stafford, Conn. 

May 1. John McMasters, Congregational church, Granby. 

Mary A. Ring, Payson Church, Eastliampton. 

Ruth H. Reed, Trinity Methodist Church, City. 

Ellen M. Clark, South Congregational Church, City. 

Margaret E. Stewart, wife Thos. S., Union Congregational 
Church, Greenfield, N. H. 

Frank H. Shattuck, Orthodox Cong. Church, Ashby. 

Dwight B. Montague, > ^orth Congregational Church, City. 

S. Helen Montague, ) & J 

Mary M. Wilcox, Memorial Church, City. 


FIRST CIIURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


137 


William Perry, Trinitarian Church, Templeton. 

Alfred J. Preston, Congregational church, South Hadley. 
Jennie E. Gleason,, State Street Baptist Church, City. 
Harry Knox, profession. 

Mary Smith, profession. 

John E. Smith, profession. 

Helen L. Ayers, profession. 

Anna L. Wight, profession. 

Lizzie M. Wight, profession. 

Mary A. Richardson, profession. 

Thomas S. Stewart, profession. 

Note by Compiler: Elected deacon, 1879. 

Martha L. Elliott, profession. 

Lois J. Wolcott, profession. 

Cora L. Rice, profession. 

Mrs. Miranda P. Cole, profession. 

Clara B. Gouch, profession. 

Julia M. Fuller, profession. 

Mary E. Collins, profession. 

Frank W. Tower, profession. 

Fred K. Chaffee, profession. 

Susan A. Wait, profession. 

Margaret R. Richey, profession. 

Frances M. Williams, profession. 

Arthur F. Barrett, profession. 

Fannie L. Barrett, profession. 

Margaret D. Weeks, profession. 

Hattie E. Simonds, profession. 

Annie R. Cleeland, profession. 

Josephine W. Shillingford, profession. 

Lewis A. Crossett, profession. 

George Worcester Longley, profession. 

Mary Ashley, profession. 

Samuel Taylor Drake, Jr., profession. 

Dr. David Clark, profession. 

Grace Bennett, profession. 

Winona Adeline Ashley, profession. 

Hattie Jeanette Cooley, profession. 

Sarah Lizzie Brace, profession. 

Henry Lewis Chapin, profession. 

Lizzie Gouch, profession. 

Edward Horace Wilcox, profession. 

John Stade Reed, profession. 

Dwight Woodruff Wilcox, profession. 

Daniel Pomeroy Cole, profession. 

Note by Compiler: Elected clerk December, 1882. 

Louisa Abbie Dickinson, profession. 


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July 5. 


Sept. 13. 
Nov. 1. 


Walter Holbrook Warner, profession. 

Abbie Burrows Sullivan, profession. 

Thomas Sherman Chaffee, profession. 

Jeanie Josephine Shillingford, profession. 

Henry Fessinden Osgood, profession. 

Howard Theo. Vaille, profession, 

Alice Margaret Leonard, profession. 

Archer Frederick Leonard, profession. 

Rlioda Ann Cook, profession. 

Susan Spelman Macready, profession. 

Martha Jane Hall, profession. 

Emily Adelia Frink, profession. 

Frank Irving Pratt, profession. 

George Lyford Gould, profession. 

Charles Kingsley Calhoun, profession. 

Mrs. Polly Porter Burt, Congregational church, Longmeadow. 
Mrs. Jane Leonard, Congregational church, Agawam. 

Everard Ayers, ) First Congregational Church, North 
Melissa A. Ayers, > Adams. 

Albert W. Elliott, Evangelical Cong. Church, Barre. 

Mrs. Eliza Williams, Memorial Church, City. 

Frank D. Thatcher, Second Congregational Church, Westfield. 
Harriet A. Sturtevant, First Pres. Church, Bordentown, N. J. 


Note by Compiler: Now Mrs. E. M. Pease, and missionary in Micronesia. 

Julia G. Severy, Second Congregational Church, Chicopee. 
Mrs. Melissa A. Buck, Cong, church. West Stafford, Conn. 
Note by Compiler: Additions, 90; by profession, 64. Membership, 673. 


1875. 

Jan. 3. Mrs. Hannah M. Webster, First Cong. Church, Meriden, Conn. 
William L. Sadler, First Cong. Church, Warren. 

James Coffran, profession. 

William G. Chapin, profession. 

Mrs. Ruby Eldredge, profession. 

Helen J. Allen, First Church, West Springfield. 

George B. Naramour, ) Grace M. E. Church, City. 

Abbie M. Naramour, ) Cong, church, Winchester, N. H. 

Mrs. Avis M. Tiffny, Congregational church, Ware. 

Henry M. Seymour, Russell Church, Hadley. 

William M. Gray, State Street Baptist Church, City. 

March 7. Ella Gertrude Cilly, profession. 

Alice Fanny Clark, profession. 

William Losea Richards, profession. 

Mrs. Caroline R. Sayles, Second Pres. Church, Albany, N. Y. 
Charles A. Kingsbury, Jr., First Cong. Church, Rockville, Conn. 
J. Augustus Robbins, Salem Street Mariners' Church, Boston. 
Note by Compiler: Elected church treasurer 1879. 


FIRST CIIURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 139 

William P. Draper, Crombie Street Cong. Church, Salem. 

Note by Compiler: Elected superintendent Sunday School Dec., 1882; still in office. 


May 2. 

Rev. Edward A. Reed, Third Pres. Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Alonzo W. Taggard, ) 

Mary E. Taggard, > P rofession - 
JennieS. Newell, profession. 

John A. C. McFadyan, profession. 

William Harry Bradway, profession. 

Mrs. Catharine W. Barnes, profession. 

Henry I. Goulding, Congregational church, Phillipston. 
William L. Barnard, ) Certif. Baptist church, Shelburne Falls. 
Emma F. Barnard, ) Second Cong. Church, Greenfield. 

July 4. 

Mrs. Mary Clark, profession. 

James Henry Clark, profession. 

Mary Jane Clark, profession. 

Sept. 5. 

Mrs. Eleanor C. Aldrich, Cong, church, Somers, Conn. 

Mrs. Martha North, First Pres. Church, Bridgeport, Conn. 


Mrs. Lucy M. Chapin, North Congregational Church, City. 
Note by Compiler: Additions, 34; by profession, 15; membership, 674. 

1876. 


Jan. 2. 

Margaret E. Stephenson, profession. 

Willard R. Barker, Congregational church, Agawam. 

Charles W. Bachelder, ) „ , „ , ~ 

Adelaide L. Bachelder, \ Second Church ' Hartford ’ ConQ - 

March. 

Mrs. Phebe Ann Tuttle, profession. 

Jennie Maria Palmer, profession. 

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Randolph, profession. 

James W. White, Presbyterian church, Lawton, Mich. 

Mrs. Charles Pomeroy, Presbyterian church, San Jose, Cal. 

s:; ££££■ <*»* 

May 7. 

Thomas N. Birnie, profession. 

Douglas P. Birnie, profession. 

Sarah P. Birnie, profession. 

Henry S. Bemis, profession. 

Maria C. Stevens, South Church, City. 

Maria C. Stevens, South Church, City. 

Sophia T. Stevens, South Church, City. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Ashcroft, Methodist church, Leyden. 

July 2. 

Sarah Elizabeth Mudgett, profession. 

Alfred Birnie, profession. 

Julius Edson Waite, profession. 

Gilbert Augustus Shaw, profession. 

George Arthur Hunt, profession. 

Frederick Alonzo Taggard, profession. 

Ellen S. G. Hunt, Church of Christ, Williamsburg. 


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Sept. 3. 


Nov. 5. 


Sarah M.'coUins, [congregational church, Somers, Conn. 
Robert W. Day. 

Christina Flanagan, from First Presbyterian Church, Galves- 
ton, Texas. 

Jennison Grow , ) ^ Cong, church, Collinsville, Conn. 
Frances Grow% > ® 

Rhoda P. Miller, from Presbyterian church, Lena, 111. 


Delphine J. Rice. 
Sophia Hoxey. 


Jan. 7. 


Mar. 4. 


May 6. 


1877. 

Laura Q. Sweatland. 

Harry S. Lewis, from Russell Congregational Church, Hadley. 

Eliza Ann Brailey, from Second Cong, Church, Amherst. 

Emma S. Chapin, from Second Congregational Church, 

Bridgeport, Conn. 

Edwin H. Baker, ) _ _ 

from East Congregational Church, Ware. 


Carrie V. Baker, 

Mary A. Noyes, from North Church, City. 

Maria T. Priest, from State Street M. E. Church, City. 
Charles Dalton, > 

Mary Dalton, \ fronl Ho P e Church > Clty ' 

Emily Ada Dalton, from Hope Church, City. 

Lilly Wing Dalton, from Hope Church, City. 

Frank S. Parkurst. ) 

Theresa L. Parkhurst. ) 

Lorissa Pierce. 

Rissa L. Fay. 

Abram Goff. > 

Sarah E. Goff. > 

*Dr. Nathan E. Ames, ) from North Church , city . 
Delia Ames, ) 


*Note by Compiler: This brother has conducted Sunday School services at the jail 
for 32 years. 

George A. Barnes, from First Cong. Church, West Brookfield. 
William H. Barnes, from First Congregational Church, West 
Brookfield. 

S. F. Chandler, ) from Howard Avenue Congregational 
Chloe Chandler, ) ' Church, New r Haven, Conn. 

James W. Stebbins, from Florence Street M. E. Church, City. 
Deacon Frederick Mills, > 

Dollie A. Mills, f from 2d Con °- Ch ’’ Lcmgmeadow. 

July 1. Samuel A. Gardner. 

Ann E. Van Bergen, from Congregational church, Havdenville. 
Sept. 2. Arthur Mendell. 

Nov. 4. Kate Chapin Gibbs. 

Note by Compiler: From this page onward names without suffix are those of per- 
sons received on profession. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


141 


Susan F. Hurd. 

Wilhelmina Henbisch. 

Edward Wadsworth Osgood. 

Martha Metcalf, from Congregational church, Middlefield. 
Herbert H. Sanderson, > from Cong, church, Sunderland. 
Florence C. Sanderson, £ from First Cong, ch., N. Brookfield. 
Lydia Wright French, from Washington Street Free Will Bap- 
tist Church, Dover, N. H. 

Note by Compiler: Additions, 38; by profession, 13; membership, 668. 

1878. 


Jan. G. 


March 3. 


May. 

July. 


♦Note 


Almira Morris, Presbyterian church, Springville, N. Y. 
Genevra B. McLean (Root). 

Minnie E. Merrifield. 

William Newell Osgood. 

Jona E. Janes, > Payson Congregational Church, Easthamp- 
Harriet A. Janes, > ton. 

Emily J. Stebbins. 

Cordelia Ann Sackett. 

Lizzie Pearl Bunker. 

Mary Edith Derby. 

Jennie Eliza Strong (Adams). 

Elizabeth Ashcroft Strong. 

William Henry Whittemore. 

Frances L. Forward, First Cong. Church, South Hadley Falls. 
Edward Albert Aldrich. 

Emily A. Anderson. 

Horace H. Barrett. 

George Morrison Belden. 

Henrietta Bemis. 

George Gardner Bliss. 

John Douglass Brace. 

Benj. Leroy Bragg. 

Harry Dwight Briggs. 

*Charles Edwin Brown. > 

Mary E. Brown. ) 

by Compiler: Elected deacon December, 1883. 


E. Welcome Brown, f 
Carrie E. Brown. ) 
Richard S. Chamberlain. 
Charles Chapin. 

Jennie L. Chapin.* 
Annie E. Clark. 

Hattie F. Clyde (Long). 
Laura E. Code. 

Lizzie R. Colton. 

Homer P. Crossett. 

Ella A. Denver. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Edward L. Dodge. 

Harvey Dumbleton. 
Edward C. Dumbleton. 
George McC. Dumbleton. 
Mary E. Fiske. 

Lizzie M. Foster. 

Alberta L. Fuller. 

Mary E. Fuller. 

Arthur W. French. 
William F. Gale. ) 

Emma E. Gale. ) 
Henrietta J. Graves. 
Henry B. Grossarth. 
Charles H. Hall. 

Miss Conant (Sackett). 

Albert H. Halford. ) 

Lina P. Halford, j 
Willis A. Hall. 

Addie Louisa Hammond. 
George Lewis Hastings. 
Annie Hitchcock. 

Edwin B. Hodskins. 

Clara E. Holland. 

Elinor P. Hunt. 

Emma L. Ilsley. 

Arthur L. Janes. 

Edward L. Janes. 

Bertha A. Janes. 

Mary B. Judd. 

William Keenan. 

Emma B. Kingsbury. 
Eugene A. Levigne. 

Alice L. Lewis. 

Edward M. Lombard. > 

Etta L. Lombard. j 
Bertha O. Lyon. 

George W. Miller. ) 

Eugenia Miller. f 
MaryE. Montague. 

William F. Mordaunt. 
Frederick William Morris. 
Maria Alma Morse. 

Mary DeForest Newell. 
Estella C. Nichols. 

Herbert H. Nutting. 

Lizzie A. Pierce. 

Eva E. Perry. 

Florence A. Pomeroy. 


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Naganroto Okabe. 

Alexander Handyside. 

Barbara McKay. 

Catherine C. McLeod. 

Annie Morrison. 

Emma J. Pease. 

Ella M. Rugg. 

Charles H. Russell. 

Laura A. Sadler. 

Ellen Smith. 

Joseph R. Sollace. 

Addie A. Stanley. 

Mary G. L. Stebbins. 

Edward J. Taggard. 

Henry D. Taylor. 

Charles S. Thompson. 

Hattie E. Tyler. 

Henry A. Tuttle. 

Mary Ann Wolcott. 

Edward C. Washburn. 

Sylvia B. Washburn. 

Charles P. Weeks. 

Frederick O. Wells. 

William George Wheat. 

Alice Idell Wlieelock. 

Sarah J. Whitcomb. 

Ruth E. Wight. 

Jennie M. Willard. 

Anna Williams. 

Minna Williams. 

Charles Wash. Williams. 

Albert H. Williams. 

Olive M. Ames, North Church, City. 

Dwight P. Beach, First Pres. Church, Memphis, Tex. 

John M. Benedict, Congregational Church, Woodbury, Conn. 
George D. Chamberlain, Second Cong. Church, Chicopee. 
Henry G. Fiske, Beneficent Congregational Church, Provi- 
dence, R. I. 

Edwin Farrar, Memorial Pres. Church, Troy, N. Y. 

Louise C. Farrar, Memorial Pres. Church, Troy, N. Y. 

Cornelia Grover, Congregational Church, Somers, Conn. 

Jessie C. Gardner, Second Congregational Church, Holyoke. 
Susannna A. Hardley, Thirteenth St. Pres. Church, N. Y. 
Franz George Jensen, Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 
N. Y. 

John A. Kaler, Congregational church, Hampden. 

Elisha F. Shaw, ) Fi rs t Congregational Church, Sturbridge. 
Martha B. Shaw, j 


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Emma L. Thompson, First Congregational Church, Bridge- 
port, Conn. 

Clara L. Wheat, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Holyoke. 

Fannie E. Wolcott, Second Cong. Church, Holyoke. 

Charles A. Hanson, ) State Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 
Helen F. Hanson, f City. 

Thomas E. Stevens, ) Congregational Church, City. 

Harriet L. Stevens, > 

Feb. Hay S. Goodyear, Reformed Dutch Church, Stapleton, Staten 

Island. 

July. Stephen Chapin. 

Note by Compiler: Elected deacon December, 1882. 

Cheney Hosmer Calkins. 

Charles F. Clark. 

Laura A. Crossett. 

Charles A. Dunn. 

Charles P. Hill. 

*Azel A. Packard. ) 

Mary Y. Packard, j 
Note by Compiler: Parish treasurer, 1872-4. 

Hope Sing. 

Adeline Bestor, Olivet Church, City. 

Bertha M. Merrill, Congregational church, Amesbury. 

Amos D. Taylor, Congregational church, Brooklyn, Conn. 

Bella C. Tourtellotte, South Church, City. 

Margaret Morrison, Presbyterian church, Winslow, Province 
Quebec. 

Clara J. Beach, First Church, Memphis, Tenn. 

Lucy Ann Sherwood, Congregational church, Lisbon, Conn. 
David Lewis, First Pres. Church, Minneapolis, Minn. 

Soplironia Williams, Second Cong. Church, Holyoke. 

Aug. Addie P. Miller. 

Nov. Annie R. Cooper, Pres, church, Basking Ridge, N. J. 

Note by Compiler: Messrs. Moody and Sanlcey, the revivalists, labored in Spring- 
field, during February and March. In July of this year Rev. E. A. Reed resigned and was 
dismissed by council. Additions this year, 155; by profession, 119; membership, 777. 


“ The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and 
his righteousness unto children’s children; to such as keep His covenant, and to those that 
remember His commandments to do them ” 


REV. EDWARD ALLEN REED. 

( Since 1880, D. D.) 


BY THE COMPILER. 

Mr. Reed was ordained in this church, and installed as pastor June 
14, 1871, and dismissed to become pastor of the Madison Av. R. D. 
Ch., N. Y. City, July 15, 1878. 

Mr. Reed’s connection of seven years with this body was mutually 
agreeable and beneficial, and resulted on the part of the members of 
the church in a very warm attachment to the young preacher of 27 
years, who made his commencement of pastoral work in their parish. 
During his ministry there was a steady increase in the membership. 

The need of suitable quarters for the Sabbath-school had been fully 
realized and plans considered during Mr. Parsons’s pastorate, and 
these deliberations took shape soon after Mr. Reed’s settlement in 
the erection of the fine and commodious Sabbath-school rotunda and 
lecture room with parlors, etc., at a cost of $35,000, of which amount 
about $30,000 was raised by subscription. Mr. Reed was heartily in 
sympathy with this extension of facilities for church work among 
the young. 

In 1878 (February and March), the well-known evangelists, Messrs. 
Moody and Sankey, held union services in the City Hall, and it was 
computed that about 1000 persons were converted through their in- 
strumentality with the assistance of the city clergymen. Mr. Reed 
embarked in this work cautiously, but speedily gave himself to it with 
unremitting fervor. The additions to the First Church numbered 
110, which was considered to be the church’s full proportion of the 
spiritual harvest. 

Mr. Reed resigned Sunday, June 13, 1878, reading his letter of 
resignation at the conclusion of the morning service. The church 
standing committee and the parish committee having received in- 
formation of the pastor’s design united in a protest against the res- 
ignation ; and the reading of the protest followed from the pulpit 
steps as soon as Mr. Reed had submitted his resignation. Brother 
Joseph Shipley, who read the protest,* requested all persons in the 
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congregation who sympathized with the action of the committees in 
the protest to manifest it by rising, when the whole congregation 
immediately rose. The young men also presented a remonstrance 
in their own behalf to Mr. Reed. There was also a protest of the 
pew-holders. The council convened July 11, 1878, when the pro- 
tests mentioned above and other papers to the same purport were 
submitted. After deliberating over the matter and considering the 
unanimous resistance of the church to the proposed dissolution, the 
council’s judgment was that it was expedient for both parties that 
Mr. Reed should continue in his pastorate ; and a committee of three 
was appointed to present their views to Mr. Reed. This committee 
afterwards reported to the council that Mr. Reed still considered it 
his duty to go, whereupon the council, “ with profound regret ” on 
their part and profounder regret on the part of the people, dissolved 
the relation — to take effect July 15. 

It is plain that the church and parish put forth the most strenuous 
exertions to oppose this separation, but to no purpose. Probably 
the church has now gone out of the resisting business for some time 
to come. 



FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 147 

Jan. 5. 

1879. 

Howard Kendall, from Congregational church, Mittineague. 
Chauncey L. Co veil, ) 

Susan E. Covell, f from Memorial Church, City. 

March 2. 

'Anna Coveil, from Memorial Church, City. 

William M. Parsons, from First Church, Northampton. 

Paulina Schaeffer, wife Jacob. 

May 4. 

Mary Keenan. 

Sarah J. M. Russell, wife R. A., from Olivet Church, City. 

Mary E. Burt, wife Roderick, from Cong, church, Monson. 

Mary M. Hall (Newcomb), from Park Street Church, West 
Springfield. 

Lucy Thatcher, wid. Crocker, from Cong, church, Lee. 

Timothy D. Thatcher, ) 

Harriet F. Thatcher, f from Congregational church, Lee. 

July G. 

Lucy C. Thatcher, from Congregational church, Lee. 

Cornelia S. Newell Barrett, wife E. A., from Hope Ch., City. 
Catharine B. Newell Goulding, wife H. I., from Hope Ch., City. 
Margaret Morison, from Presbyterian ch., Winslow, P. Q. 

Amos Lyman Merrill. 

George Herbert Stuart. 

Mrs. Mary Virginia Terhune, wife Edward P., from First Re- 
formed Church, Newark, N. J. 

George Sumner Burt, | from Evang. Cong. Ch., Plainfield. 
Nettie Clara Burt, > from Second Cong. Ch., Greenfield. 

Reuben Hazen Smith, from Cong, church, Plymouth, Conn. 
Rebecca Webb Smith, from Cong, church, Plymouth, Conn. 
Julia Clarissa Hunt, from Congregational church, Sunderland. 

Sept. 7. 

Andrew Brabner Wallace, > . 

„n, f from Olivet Church, City. 

Janet Miller Wallace, > . 

Nov. 2 . 

Mary Tufts Howe. 

Huldah T. Bailey, wid. Samuel E., from Union Church, 
Worcester. 

Chrissie Terhune, First Reformed Church, Newark, N. J. 

Dec. 11. 

Carrie Langdon Coveil. 

Albert Williams (reinstated). 


Note by Compiler : Rev. Dr. E. P. Terhune installed over this church in April of 
present year. Additions, 30; by profession, 6. Membership, 769. 


Jan. 4. 

1880. 

Virginia Belle Terhune. 

Sybella W. Eastman, First Congregational Church, Greenfield. 
Belle W. Eastman (Judkins), First Cong. Church, Greenfield. 
Mrs. Lydia J. Hendrick, First Congregational Church, South 
Hadley Falls. 

Anna W. Wheelock, First Congregational Church, South 
Hadley Falls. 


148 

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 

March 7. 

Mary W. Boggs, Congregational church, Mittineague. 

Margaret Eldridge, Hope Church, City. 

William McClester, Hope Church, City. 

Ellen Booth Derby, Congregational church, Ellington, Conn. 

May 2. 

Mattie Harris Newell, Congregational church, Rutland, Vt. 
Harvey E Moseky, » North Church New H Conn . 

Sarah R. Moseley, > 

Theodore W. Ellis, ) First B tist Church cit 

Maria L. Ellis, \ * J 


Ralph Waterbury Ellis, First Baptist Church, City. 
Note by Compiler: Parish treasurer 1885. 

Nancy W. Hill Rice, Olivet Church, City. 


July 4. 

Fidelia Hill, Olivet Church, City. 

Priscilla E. Pierce, Congregational church, Conway. 

Arianna P. Cobb, First Cong. Church, Morrisville, Vt. 

Mrs. Janette Earle. 

Nov. 7. 

Annie McLean. 

Katie McCaskell. 

Jennie I. L. Godfrey, Reformed' Protestant Dutch Church, 
New York. 

Charles B. Holton, ) 0 ~ . _ , 

Sarah B. Holton, f Second Congregational Church, Holyoke. 

Rachel C. Belden, Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Note by Compiler: “ Envelope system” for benevolent contributions adopted this 
year. 

Additions, 25; by profession, 3. Membership, 772, 

Twelfth annual meeting of the Woman’s Board of Foreign Missions held in First 
Church January 13 and 14. 


Jan. 2. 

1881. 

Kate Keenan. 

March 6. 

Mrs. H. Elizabeth Ranger. 

Mrs. Kate Beebe, North Church, City. 

Henry M. Danielson, Westfield Congregational Church, Dan- 
ielsonville, Conn. 

Helen Slate, South Congregational Church, New Britain, Conn. 
Adelbert B. Case, First Congregational Church, Worcester. 

Mrs. Nellie N. A. Hooker, Church of the Redeemer, New 
Haven. 

July 3. 

Mrs. Catharine Keenan, profession. 

Mrs. Ella May Knight, profession. 

Eva A. Whittemore, profession. 

Mrs. Ida M. Briggs, profession. 

Mrs. L. Jeanie Edmunds, Congregational church, Ewing. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


149 


Nov. 6. Morris D. Fletcher, First Congregational Church, Amherst. 

Mrs. Helen Grant Newell, from 1st Cong. Ch., Manchester, 
Conn. 

“ Lottie K. C. Lyle, from 1st Pres. Ch., West Point, N. Y. 
Frank P. Olmstead, from Cong, ch., Windsor Locks, Conn. 

Note by Compiler: This year the new organ was placed in the projection built for it • 
behind the pulpit. The organ contains 50 stops, 2311 pipes, and 9 pedal movements, and 
was first exhibited to the public December 5. The church was frescoed the same year. 
Total expenditures of 1881, $21,000, viz.: Home and foreign missions, $5400; organ and re- 
pairs, $8000; parish expenses, $7600. Sabbath-school and Bible service at 2}£ o’clock. 
Average attendance, 400. 

Additions, 18; by profession, 6. Total membership, 740. 


1882. 


Jan. 1. Nancie Kennedy. 

March 5. Mary E. Stackman, letter from First Congregational Church, 
Westfield. 

Mrs. Laura W. Mills, wife of Dea. Frederick, letter from Con- 
gregational church, Feeding Hills. 

May 7. Mrs. Lorinda Cowan (widow), letter from Congregational 
church, Enfield. 

Mrs. Laura G. Barnes (widow), letter from Congregational 
church, Agawam. 

July 2. Mrs. Katharine A. Ellis, wife of Ralph W., letter from Park 
Street M. E. Church, Chelsea. 

Elliot S. Miller, ) letter f rom s eC0 nd Cong. Church, Chicopee. 

Sarah Miller, ) 

John L. Johnson, ) letter from Greenhill Presbyterian 

Charlotte Johnson, ) Church, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Mrs. Mary Giles Northrop, widow of Frederick W., letter from 
North Church, New Haven, Conn. 

Nov. 5. Mrs. Ada M. Blake, letter from Cong, church, Westford, Yt. 

Mrs. Jane Dowdy, wife of William, letter from College 
Square Presbyterian Church, Belfast, Ireland. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Howarth, letter from Windsor Avenue Congre- 
gational Church, Hartford, Conn. 

Note by Compiler: Additions, 14; by profession, 1. Total, 715. 


1883. 

Jan. 7. Luella E. Fay. 

Jennie F. Turner. 

Grace E. Gould. 

Minnie Linda Rice. 

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Beals. 

George Bruce, ") letter from Church of Scotland, Kirk- 

Ellen Geddes Bruce, ) wull, Scotland. 


150 

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 

March 4. 

Mrs. Amy Burns, wife of David, letter from Presbyterian 
church, Thompsonville, Conn. 

Mrs. Alice R. Lewis, wife of Harry S., letter from South 
Church, City. 

Mrs. Matilda W. Worthington, wife of Solomon, letter from 
Memorial Church, City. 

Mrs. Mary C. Turner, letter from Second Congregational 
Church, Westfield. 

G^W Gould, > (rom Memorial Church Cit 

Nancy W. Gould, > 

Mrs. H. C. Morgan, wife of Rev. J. F., letter from West Con- 
gregational Church, Portland, Me. 

Charles Morgan. 

Charles Dwight Montague. 

Arthur Eliakem Barney. 

Mrs. Gertrude Rice. 

May 6. 

Lottie Din wood Johnson. 

Gertrude W. Roberts. 

Hattie E. Stickney. 

Clara Stickney. 

Louisa M. Hahn. 

Belle B. Anderson. 

Clara M. Williams. 

Fanny Maynard Vilas. 

Ida F. Farrar. 

Sarah K. Kingsley. 

Arthur S. Wildes. > 

Elizabeth F. Wildes. ) 

Charles W. Phillips. 

William N. Raymond. 

Mrs. Emma J. Welch, letter from Congregational church, 
South Norwalk, Conn. 

James N. Patterson, letter from First Congregational Church, 
Woodbridge, N. J. 

Mrs. Mary T. Cooley, letter from Congregational church, 
West Granville. 

July 1. 

Jonathan F. Banister, letter from Edwards Congregational 
Church. Northampton. 

George F. Smith, letter from Cong, church, Florence. 

Henry F. Rich, letter from First Cong. Church, Ware. 

Melvin A. Berry, letter from Cong, church, West Hampton. 
Durward C. Clapp, letter from Cong, church, South Deerfield. 
Perry Anderson Clark, letter from First Congregational 
Church, Westfield. 

Atkins E. Blair, letter from Metli. Episcopal Church, Palmer. 
Hazen H. Miner. 

John C. Colcord. 

Herbert E. Thatcher. 


Sept. 2. 


Nov. 4. 


Note 


Jan. 6. 


March 2. 


May 4. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 151 


Julia Baker. 

Harriet Newell Lyon. 

Mrs. Lucinda Edwards, letter from Congregational ch., New 
Ipswich, N. H. 

James Gray, ) letter from Trinity Church, Aberdeen, 

Mrs. James Gray, > Scotland. 

Rev. J. F. Morgan, letter from West Congregational Church, 
Portland, Me. 

Mrs. E. J. Blue, widow, letter from Congregational church, 
Brandon, Yt. 

John Strumwell, 7 letter from Evangelical Church, Indian 
Mary Strumwell, > Orchard. 

Clara L. Rockwell. 

Mrs. Elvira Nettlefield, letter from Grace Methodist Episcopal 
Church, City. 

Compiler: Additions, 56; by profession, 29. Total membership, 729. 


1884. 

George Dwight Bardwell. 

Mrs. Mary Tyler, letter from Congregational church, Stafford 
Springs, Conn. 

John B. Tyler, 7 letter from Congregational church, Stafford 
Celia A. Tyler, ) Springs, Conn. 

James F. Herrick, letter from South Church, City. 

Mrs. Sarah K. Howard, letter from South Church, City. 

Mrs. Louise R. Taylor, letter from First Congregational 
Church, West Springfield. 

Francis I. Rollins. 7 
Ellen C. Rollins. ) 

Fred O. Shaw. 7 
Ida R. Shaw. ) 

Nellie W. Hollister. 

Mrs. Margaret Roberts. 

Mrs. Ida M. Warriner, wife of S. C. 

Margaret Bruce. 

Charles Willis. 

William R. Winchester. 

Lucy T. Marsh. 

Grace L. Marsh. . 

James P. Franklin, 7 • letter from Second Congregational 
Jennie L. Franklin, ) Church, Holyoke. 

Louise W. Thomas, letter from Fourth Congregational Church, 
Hartford, Conn. 

Emma Julia Russell. 

Mary Riggs. 

Mrs. Amanda Hubbard, widow of Dennis. 

Elizabeth Greenwood Hubbard. 


152 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 


Mary Wilson Hubbard. 

Alice Clark Hubbard. 

William C. Hall. 

Mrs. Margaret N. Kilgour, wife of William. 
Mary Jane Kilgour. 

James Kilgour. 

George H. Davis. ) 

Maria M. Davis. ) 

Mrs. Jane Hosmer, wife of Jesse. 

Edna Browning Hosmer. 

Mrs. Sadie E. Rude. 

Mrs. Mina L. Warfield, wife of Julius H. 
Mrs. Mary M. Kelsey, wife of W. H. 

Clara E. Mudgett. 

Grace L. Kemp. 

Katie A. Kemp. 

Mary L. Leshure. 

Lena L. English. 

Emma A. Stanley. 

Lillie E. Taylor. 

Mrs. Lottie H. Lewis. 

Ida E. Rollins. 

May B. Withey. 

Otis D. Pomeroy. 

Louie A. Peckham. 

Louis R. Levalle. 

Edward M. Lovering. 

Lot Quimby Swetland. 

Charles A. Witt. 

Alice L. Tuttle. 

Gertrude Bugbee. 

James W. Ewer. ) 

Sarah Helen Ewer. J 
Edna Wallace Ewer. 

Frances Ella Pomeroy. 

Adelia C. Brady, 

Charles Brug. ) 

Gertrude Brug. j 
Nellie E. Brug. 

Theresa M. Brug. 

Charles Leonard Holton. 

Lena Clark. 

May F. Daley. 

Mrs. Lou M. Sibley. 

Florence L. Judd. 

Hattie F. Rosenburg. 

Alice Haile. 

Henry C. Haile. 


FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, STRING FI ELD, MASS. 


153 


Jessie L. Pomeroy. 

Maggie Keenan. 

Emma S. Mitschke. 

Anna Louise Johnson. 

Caroline B. Kingsley. 

Phebe A. Durgan. 

Frank B. Bigelow. 

Samuel B. Douchein. 

Henry Stackman. 

Emma A. Barnes. 

Frank A. Lincoln, letter from First Congregational Church, 
Franklin. 

Alanson B. Pomeroy, ) letter from Congregational church, 
Elizabeth Mary Pomeroy, J North Becket. 

Mrs. Lila D. Lovering, letter from First Baptist Church, West 
Springfield. 

Lila A. Lovering, letter from First Baptist Church, West 
Springfield. 

Yan Phou Lee, letter from First Presbyterian Church, Canton, 
China. 

July 6. Julia Co veil Rogers. 

Margaret Weeks Shipley Irwin. 

Mabel Colburn Gardner. 

Charles H. McFadyen. 

Mrs. Addie Chandler, wife of N. S. 

Sept. 7. ' M. Matilda Buckler, letter from Payson Church, Easthamp- 

ton. 

Elizabeth Buckler, letter from Payson Church, Easthampton. 
Nov. 2. Mrs. Amanda M. Hall. 

George H. Leikam, Third Congregational Church, Middletown, 
Conn. 

Note by Compiler: Successful revival services were held during February and March 
under the lead of S. M. Say ford, the evangelist. 

Rev. Dr. Terhune resigned, and was dismissed May 19, 1884, to become pastor of a Brook- 
lyn church. 

The debt of the church (of many years’ standing and frequently augmented) was extin- 
guished by subscriptions made Sunday, February 17, but as subscriptions do not invariably 
prove to be equal to cash, a small balance remains. 

Additions, 99 ; by profession, 81. Total membership, 773. 


“For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endureth.to all genera- 
tions.” 




REV. EDWARD PAYSON TERHUNE, D. D. 


BY THE COMPILER. 

Dr. Terhu.ne was born in New Brunswick, N. J., graduated at 
Rutgers College, and studied theology in the Reformed Dutch Semi- 
nary of New Brunswick. 

(He also took a medical course in the office of a prominent physician.) 

Ordained in 1855. 

Called to his first pastorate by the “ Village Church ” of Char- 
lotte C. H., Va., which he left in 1859, to accept the pulpit of the 
First Reformed Dutch Church, of Newark. 

In 1876 he resigned his charge, and was in Europe for two years 
on account of his wife’s ill-health. 

April 30, 1879, installed over the First Church of Springfield, from 
which he was dismissed May 19, 1884, to become pastor of the Bed- 
ford Street Reformed Dutch Church, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

In the last year of Dr. Terhune’s pastorate a revival was experi- 
enced which added eighty converts to the church, sixty-six of them 
being from our own Sabbath-school, then as now under the persua- 
sive management of Wm. P. Draper. The meetings of this gracious 
season were in charge of S. M. Sayford, of Newton, a revivalist, who 
after spending many weeks in the other Springfield churches began 
his labors with the First Church, in February, 1884, preaching nearly 
every night for several weeks as well as visiting the inquiring. The 
interest which culminated in these additions to the church, began, 
however, in the previous December, under the pastor’s inauguration 
of Sunday evening “ praise services ” in the chapel. 

During his five years’ ministry in Springfield, Dr. Terhune made 
many friends, and won acceptance in all this region for his catho- 
licity of spirit. 


FIRST CHURCII OF CHRIST, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 155 


Feb. 27. 
Mar. 1. 


May 3. 


July 4. 


Sept. 6. 


Nov. 1. 


1885. 

Rev. Michael Burnham, > Immanuel Gong. Church, Bos- 
Cassandra V . Burnham, \ ton Highlands. 

Julia C. Dickinson, profession. 

Cora M. Brailey, profession. 

Mary Clark, profession. 

Laura E. Bowen, Hope Congregational Church, City. 

Eben Stebbins, ) Hope Congregational Church, 

Emily Jane Stebbins, > City. 

Mrs. Sybella W. Eastman, Hope Cong. Church, City. 

Mrs. May L. Winter, First Church of Christ, Fair Haven, 
Conn. 

Mrs. Helen A. Rand, First Cong. Church, Pembroke, N. H. 
Mrs. Lizzie D. Crane, wife of Merritt, Pres, church, Taylor, 
Texas. 

Mrs. Sarah A. Wells, wife of J. F., First Congregational 
Church, Homer, N. Y. 

Mrs. Annie L. Brooks, wife of Dr. L. S., Pilgrim Church, 
Providence, R. I. 

Dr. Seraph Frissell, South Cong. Church, Pittsfield. 

A. M. Spalter, Saundersville Congregational Church. 

Dr. S. D. Brooks, Olivet Church, City. 

Linnie R. Spear, North Church, City. 

Mrs. Villroy C. Lord, Congregational church, Agawam. 

Mrs. Eliza L. Hunt, Congregational church, Agawam. 

Mary E. Hunt, Congregational church, Agawam. 

Elihu T. Hunt, Congregational church, Agawam. 

Nancy M. Kirkland, Congregational church, Agawam. 

Addie Louise Newell, wife Howard N., profession. 

Rev. LoringB. Marsh, > Congregational church, Berlin. 

Emily Marsh, > Cong, church, Wading River, N. Y. 

Mrs. Laura P. Loomis, Second Congregational Church, Coven- 
try, Conn. 

Frederick H. Law, Calvary Presbyterian Church, West 
Brighton, N. Y. 

Esther A. Bayliss, North Church, City. 

Catharine Ballinger, Presbyterian church, N. Y. Mills, N. Y. 


Still through THE TRUTH, so fully tried, 
Old church ! be grander triumphs won; 
Thy brightest records far outdone; 

And all thy members sanctified. 




REV. MICHAEL BURNHAM. 


BY THE COMPILER. 

The 10th pastor of the First Church was installed February 27, 
1885. 

Mr. Burnham was born in Essex, Mass. His earliest religious im- 
pressions were received under the ministry of the Rev. Dr. Robert 
Crowell, of Essex; and his conversion followed under the ministry of 
Dr. Crowell’s successor, Rev. J. M. Bacon. The latter, discerning 
the convert’s aptitude for the ministry, not only urged him into the 
preliminary studies, but maintained to the end, the most generous 
interest in all his preparation for the sacred calling. Mr. Burnham 
was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1863; from Am- 
herst College in 1867; and from Andover Theological Seminary in 
1870. Before leaving the theological seminary he had received a 
call to the Central Congregational Church of Fall River; and was 
ordained to the ministry in that church, and installed over it October 
25, 1870, succeeding the Rev. Eli Thurston, D. D. The Central 
Church enjoys a well-earned repute for Christian activity, and espe- 
cially for vigorous missionary work in its own city. Mr. Burnham’s 
second year’s labor in this body of three hundred members resulted 
in an ingathering of 58. His fifth year was signalized by the erec- 
tion of a very fine Gothic church building, costing some two hundred 
and sixty thousand dollars; but much of this sum, owing to the 
severe business troubles and remarkable “ financial irregularities,” 
which in those days occurred in that city of spindles, remained un- 
paid until 1879; when the pastor’s time and energies were devoted to 
and absorbed in the necessary business of “ lifting ” the debt. This 
important work was successfully accomplished, — eighty thousand 
dollars being subscribed that year and paid in due time. Notwith- 
standing the long business depression, and all the drawbacks inci- 
dent to it, the net gain of the body in 1882 was one hundred and 
sixty members; and in May of that year, after receiving various calls 
from other churches, Mr. Burnham, realizing the need of a change 
and hoping for benefit by it, asked to be dismissed from his field of 
arduous but delightful labor, to accept the pastorate of the Immanuel 
Church in Boston Highlands; which body he continued to serve 
until called to wider usefulness by the First Church of Springfield. 


Rev. Geo. Moxon, installed , 1637; dismissed 1652, and returned to En- 

gland; term 15 years; died (in England) 1687. 

Rev. Pelatiah Glover, installed , 1660; in the service of this church 

until relieved by the Master; term 32 years; died 1692. 

Rev. Daniel Brewer, installed May 16, 1694; in the service of this church 
until relieved by the Master; term 40 years; died 1733. 

Rev. Robert Breck, installed Jan. 26, 1736; in the service of this church 
until relieved by the Master; term 49 years; died 1784. 

Rev. Bezaleel Howard, D. D., installed April 27, 1785; retired 1808, dis- 
missed 1809; term 23 years; died 1837. 

Rev. Samuel Osgood, D. D., installed Jan. 25, 1809; retired from active 
duty 1854; term 45 years; died 1862. 

Rev. Henry M. Parsons, installed Nov. 15, 1854; dismissed to pastorate in 
Boston 1870; term 16 years. 

Rev. Edward A. Reed, installed June 14, 1871; dismissed to pastorate in 
New York 1878; term 7 years. 

Rev. Edward P. Terhune, D. D., installed April 30, 1879; dismissed to 
pastorate in Brooklyn 1884; term 5 years. 

Rev. Michael Burnham, installed Feb. 27. 1885. 


l^seords of the l^irst ©fihareb. 


As the Records of the church are occasionally in use for various 
purposes, and all may not be found in the church safe, this list of 
them is appended for the information and convenience of succeeding 
clerks. 

1. Church Record Book, 1735 to Nov., 1808, contains church business, 

admissions, baptisms, marriages, dismissions, and deaths. Kept by 
Rev. Rob’t Breck, from 1735 to 1783; kept by Rev. Bez’l Howard, 
from 1785 to 1808. 

2. Record Book, Jan., 1809, to Jan., 1854, contains list of admissions, 

baptisms, marriages, and deaths. Kept by Dr. S. Osgood, and is the 
property of his family. 

3. Church Record Book, Dec., 1809, to Sept., 1854, contains church 

business, admissions from 1844 to 1855, and dismissions. Kept by Dr. 
Osgood, 1809 to 1844 ; Otis Lombard, 1844 to 1845 ; J. T. Rockwood, 
1845 to 1846 ; Chauncy Chapin, 1846 to 1850 ; Dan’l Reynolds, 1850 to 
1854. 

4. Record Book, Sept., 1854, to Nov. 2, 1871, contains church business, 

membership, baptisms, marriages, and deaths. Kept by Rev. H. M. 
Parsons to Nov., 1870, with entries by E. C. Rogers, clerk for the 
year 1871. 

5. Church Record Book, from Jan., 1856, to Mar., 1878. Kept by 

church clerks only: D. Chauncey Brewer, 1856 to 1859; E. Morgan, 
1860 to 1870; E. C. Rogers, 1870 to 1878. 

6. Church Record Book, now in use, 1878 to . (In use 1885, and 

good for many years to come.) Kept by church clerks only: E. C. 
Rogers, 1878; T. S. Stewart, 1879; H. H. Sanderson, 1880; Theo. W. 
Ellis, 1881 and 1882; Dan’l E. Cole, 1883, and still in office. 


^pffioers of t^e; 'First ©SmtoS, 
PARISH AND SABBATH SCHOOL FOR 1586. 



ALSO CHOIR, COLLECTORS, ETC. 


Pastor-Rev. MICHAEL BURNHAM. 


Deacons. — J. R. Hixon, J. L. Johnson, A. P. Ware, Jos. L. Shipley, Stephen Chapin, 
Clias. E. Brown. 

Clerk.— D. P. Cole. 

Treasurer. — J. Aug. Robbins. 

Acting Treasurer.— Ralph W. Ellis. 

Standing Committee. — The Pastor, Deacons, Clerk, S. S. Superintendent, ex 
officio, A. A. Packard, J. A. Robbins, H. S. Lewis, Wm. L. Richards. 

Woman’s Advisory Committee. — Mrs. J. R. Hixon, Mrs. N. C. Newell, Mrs. 
Geo. Gould, Mrs. Sarah O. Avery, Mrs. John Giles. 

Ushers. — W. N. Raymond, H. F. Rich, C. A. Morgan, G. M. Dumbleton. 

Collectors of Morning Offerings. — C. W. Williams, W. L. Richards, H. F. 
Rich, H. S. Lewis, W. G. Wheat, A. O. Corbin, H. G. Fiske, F. O. Shaw. Alternates: 
A. P. Williams, J. H. Clark, H. C. Haile, G. M. Dumbleton, C. A. Morgan, C. W. 
Willis, A. E. Blair. 

City Missionary. — Miss Elizabeth Bates. 

Choir. — Miss Fannie B. Chamberlain, Soprano? Mrs. James C. Ingersoll, Alto; 
James C. Ingersoll, Tenor; George R. Bond, Bass; E. H. Phelps, Organist and 
Director. ' 


SUNDAY SCHOOL. 


Organized 1818. 


Superintendent, Wm. P. Draper; Assistants, D. P. Cole, Ralph W. Ellis, H. F. 
Rich; Secretary, Wm. L. Richards; Assistant Secretary, A. O. Corbin; Usher, Chas. 
Willis; Librarian, W. E. Holt; Assistants, C. W. Phillips, C. A. Morgan. 


PARISH. 

Parish Committee.— W. H. Haile, W. L. Barnard, A. B. Wallace, A. A. Packard, 
C. E. Brown; Clerk, E. Dudley Chapin; Treasurer, Ralph W. Ellis. 




>He First ©fkirafl m f|lisgi0Fis. 



BY MISS MARGARET BLISS. 


Note by Compiler: These reminiscences of Springfield’s missionary saints and heroes 
were not originally prepared for publication, but were read by the author, Miss Margaret 
Bliss, to her friends at the monthly concert in the chapel of the First Church. The affec- 
tionate appreciation and sympathetic tone which pervade the paper are characteristic of 
Miss Bliss, who is the Corresponding Secretary of the Springfield branch of the Woman’s 
Board of Missions, and has been the life-long friend of missions and missionaries. 

Dr. Samuel Osgood became pastor of the First Church in 1809. The 
next year the American Board was formed, which organization received from 
the beginning, the cordial sympathy and generous support of both pastor and 
people. At first all contributions were sent directly to the Board in Boston, 
to be used in any way most needed. Next,, a certain sum was pledged for 
the support of some child in India or Ceylon, which child should receive 
either the name of the donor himself or some name that he should select. 

In the early records of the Missionary Herald , the name of Israel E. Trask 
appears, for whose support various sums were given, by “ a friend in Spring- 
field, Mass.,” and there is no doubt that Col. Israel E. Trask, at that time 
a resident of Springfield, and a member of the First Church, was the friend 
and donor. 

This plan of supporting children in India had its advantages, but it was 
also attended with many difficulties. It was not pleasant for the mission- 
aries to be obliged to report that “ R. S. Storrs,” “ Archibald Alexander,” 
and “ Alexander Henry,” had run away because a boy of low caste had 
been received into the school; or that others bearing equally distinguished 
names had proved unpromising and had been dismissed. 

Israel E. Trask is reported as being active and studious — the second in 
school in point of talent, but possessing an unhappy temper which often 
exposed him to censure. 

Timothy Dwight is mentioned as being an amiable youth of fine talents, who 
with more than forty others, had declared himself openly and boldly on the 
Lord’s side. 

Although, on the whole, this was considered for a long time, one of the 
best methods of doing good, the Board soon felt the need of other means 
by which the cause of missions might more steadily be carried forward. 

A missionary society in every church * f a corps of collectors to solicit funds ; 
the societies of one county or district combining to form one auxiliary, with 
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a deputation from the parent institution, — this was the plan proposed by 
which the American Board hoped to reach every individual; “ For,” said 
the Prudential Committee, “ all who profess to be followers of Christ must 
feel their joint and their individual responsibility. We plead for common 
sacrifices to be made with enlightened zeal, for a common object, and that 
object the worthiest, and the noblest, which ever claimed the agency of man.” 

The llampden County Auxiliary was among the first to be formed in 
response to this appeal, with liev. Baxter Dickinson, of Longmeadow, secre- 
tary, and Col. Solomon Warriner, deacon of the First Church in Springfield, 
treasurer. 

Besides this organization, a Young Ladies’ Benevolent Society is reported 
as contributing to the funds of the Board through its treasurer, Miss. Abby, 
daughter of Hon. George Bliss. The Hampden County Auxiliary held its 
second anniversary in October, 1826. Previous to this, however, an agent 
of the American Board, after carefully looking over the field, had selected 
Springfield as the most suitable place for a grand missionary meeting which 
should arouse the interest of the whole community. Five young men were 
to be set apart for missionary work, and it was decided that the ordination 
should take place in Springfield. 

Accordingly, on the 10th of May, 1826, Revs. Josiah Brewer, Eli Smith, 
Cyrus Stone, and Jeremiah Stow, were ordained as missionaries, and Rufus 
Anderson as an evangelist. The introductory prayer was made by Rev. 
Samuel Osgood, of Springfield ; the sermon was preached by Rev. Warren Fay, 
of Charlestown, from Matt. 28 ; 20, “ Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the 
end of the world ” ; the ordaining prayer was made by Rev. David D. Field, 
of Stockbridge ; the charge was given by Rev. Isaac Knapp, of Westfield ; 
the fellowship of the churches by Rev. L. I. Iloadley, of Worcester ; and 
the concluding prayer was made by Rev. Alexander Phoenix, of Springfield. 
The interest manifested in the solemnities of the day by the inhabitants of 
Springfield, and by many from the neighboring towns was very great, five- 
hundred communicants partaking of the Lord’s Supper at the close of the 


exercises. 

In his sermon, Mr. Fay said : “ Missionaries abroad and churches at 
home should place their dependence on the promised presence and grace 
of the Lord Jesus Christ. His promise furnishes the highest encouragement 
to faithful missionaries, and to all the frieuds of missions. Christian mis- 
sionaries may indeed find it their duty, and they undoubtedly will, to pro- 
mote useful knowledge, the means of civilization, and all useful institutions 
and to encourage intellectual and physical improvement; but all this must 
be done as auxiliary to their great work, that of making known the Gospel 
of Christ.” The preacher illustrated the importance of the promise to 
Christian missionaries in relation to their qualifications for their work, their 

trials, their labors and their success. 

The singing on that occasion was conducted by Col. Warriner, the long- 
time chorister of the First Church, to whom the people of Springfield of that 
dav were indebted more than they knew for a correct musical taste. 

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One of the hymns sung was : 

“Jesus shall reign where’er the sun 
Does his successive journeys run ; ” 

and six or eight little girls occupying the front seat in the choir gave a 
beautiful illustration of the words of the poet as they sang : 

“ And infant voices shall proclaim 
Their early blessings on his name.” 

Of these five young men, Mr. Brewer went to Syria, and Mr. Stone to 
India. It is supposed that Mr. Stow never entered upon missionary work, 
on account of failing health. The work of Dr. Anderson is well known. 
He became secretary of the American Board in 1832, which position he held 
for thirty-four years, resigning at the age of seventy, in 1866. In the progress 
of these years, Dr. Anderson visited the missions in India, in Turkey, and 
in the Sandwich Islands, in behalf of the Board with which during his whole 
active life he was thoroughly identified. 

Rev. Eli Smith, taking leave of his parents in the vestibule of the church 
(they having come from Connecticut to be present at his ordination), went 
the same night to Boston, whence, after a few days, he sailed for Malta to 
superintend a missionary printing establishment. 

In 1839 he made his second visit to the United States, and the same year 
a font of Arabic type, cast under his supervision at ‘Leipsic, was prepared 
for the mission press. At his request the Arabic portion of the printing 
establishment was removed from Malta to Beirut, and from 1847 he was 
engaged upon a new translation of the Bible into that language. 

The printing of the whole Bible in Arabic was completed in March, 1865. 
This important event which, however, Dr. Smith did not live to see, was 
appropriately celebrated by the missionaries and their native brethren. 
One who was present on that occasion writes : 

“In the upper room where Dr. Smith had labored on the translation eigfit 
years, and Dr. Van Dyck eight years more, the assembled missionaries 
gave thanks to God for the completion of the arduous work. Just then, the 
sound of many voices arose from below, and, on throwing open the door, 
we heard a large company of young men, laborers at the press and members 
of the Protestant community, singing to the tune of Hebron, ‘a new song, 
even praise to our God,’ composed for the occasion by one of their number. 

* Hail day, thrice blessed of our God ! 

Rejoice, let all men bear a part, 

Complete at length Thy printed word, 

Lord, print its truth on every heart. 

* To Him who gave his precious word , 

Arise and with glad praises sing; 

Exalt and magnify our Lord, 

Our Maker and our glorious King.” 


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Surely not for many centuries have the angels in heaven heard a sweeter 
sound arising from Syria.” 

A few years after the ordination of these young men. Miss Martha Ely, 
who had been teacher of a girls’ school in the old academy building, then 
standing at the foot of Elm street, was married to the missionary, Rev. 
Daniel Temple, and went with him to Malta. Remote as these events are, 
three members of the First Church now living, were once pupils of Miss Ely. 

During the first year of Dr. Osgood's ministry a child presented for bap- 
tism received the name of the pastor. This Samuel Osgood Wright, grown 
to manhood, went to Liberia as a missionary, being sent, it is supposed, by 
some society other than the American Board, as his name is not mentioned 
in any report of that organization. He soon fell a victim to the climate, 
and lives now only in tlie memory of a few who knew him while he lived in 
Springfield. 

Rev. Story Debat'd is remembered as the first teacher of the boys’ high 
school on School street, a fine scholar, a most amiable man, and a devoted 
Christian, who easily won the hearts of all his pupils. Mr. Hebard after- 
wards studied for the ministry and went to Syria as a missionary, but soon 
lost his health and died at Malta in 1841. 

Rev. Samuel Bonney, missionary to China, was in his youth a member of 
the First Church Sunday-school, being at that time clerk at the “Corner ” 
book-store, then owned and occupied by the firm of G. & C. Merriam. Rev. 
William W. Howland, of India, was also once employed by the same firm. 

These five missionaries may be considered as once belonging to the First 
Church, though their names may never have been enrolled as members. 

Rev. S. II. Calhoun united with this church in November, 1831. His con- 
version after the death of his mother was as sudden, as thorough, and to 
those who had known him in college, almost as marvelous, as was that of 
Saul of Tarsus. Leaving the study of law, which he had commenced in the 
office of his brother, Hon. William B. Calhoun, he turned his attention to 
the ministry, at the same time being employed as teacher of the boys’ high 
school. Having subdued the turbulent and mischievous spirit that had 
driven his immediate predecessor from the school-room, Mr. Calhoun not 
only became a revered and honored friend to the boys, but to their parents 
as well, and he was received in all their homes a welcome guest. Boys were 
fitted for college under his instruction, and with many of them the ac- 
quaintance thus begun in the school-room ripened into life-long friendship. 

One of his pupils, who afterward became a missionary, says of his former 
teacher and friend : “ But the teacher who most influenced my life in those 

days (and, 1 may say, most influences me to this day) was Mr. Calhoun. 
It has been my privilege to meet him often since my boyhood, both in his 
own home on the Lebanon, and at my own house, and from every interview 
I have come away with a most distinct impression that I had received 
higher ideas of life, and been stirred up to make fresh efforts after the 

things that are excellent. _ ^ 

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first consecrated himself to tlio service of Christ. It was just at the same 
period that my own heart was turned to the same service, and I shall never 
forget the help his counsels and his prayers were to me in the familiar inter- 
course he allowed me to have with him in his own room, and in the walks to 
which he often invited me. I do not think that Mr. Calhoun had at that 
time any definite plan for life. His great effort was to quicken and guide 
my aspirations after holiness and conformity to the example of Christ.”. 

Mr. Calhoun became at once an acknowledged leader in the church and in 
the Sunday-school. His voice was often heard in public, but whether iii de- 
livering a lyceum lecture, or an impromptu address at a temperance meet- 
ing, or in visiting the sick at their own homes, he was everywhere known as 
an earnest Christian. And this, without any assumption of superior sanc- 
tity, but only as a sinner saved by grace. “ Before I was afflicted I went 
astray,” he would sometimes say in allusion to his former life, and it was his 
own narrow escape from the dangers which beset young men that made him 
the wise and sympathetic counselor that he was to the many that were fa- 
vored with his friendship. 

At the close of the heroic struggle which resulted in the independence of 
Greece, Mr. Calhoun, then a college student, and his profession in life not 
yet determined, jocosely said to one of his companions that he should like 
nothing better than to go to Greece, and distribute Bibles in that country. 
One of the professors, overhearing the remark, said, as he afterward told Mr. 
Calhoun, that he could not help praying in his heart that this might actually 
be the case, though at that time, nothing seemed more improbable. 

But after Mr. Calhoun became a Christian, the Saviour’s last command was 
met with, “ Why not I?” until at length he fully determined to devote him- 
self to missionary work in foreign lands. He was ordained in this church 
in November, 1836, and in January, 1837, went to Smyrna, as the first agent 
of the American Bible Society in the Levant. The prayers of the good 
professor, as well as those of his sainted mother, were answered. 

A few years later, Mr. Calhoun entered the service of the American 
Board. He made a brief visit to America in 1810, and again in 1818, after 
which he became permanently established as teacher at Abeih, Mt. Lebanon. 

The following report -was given of this seminary after it had been in oper- 
ation about twenty years : 

“ The course of study has been confined to the Arabic language, but the 
Bible, has been the chief text-book. The Old and New Testaments are 
studied through the entire four-years’ course. The graduates are scattered 
throughout the East. Some are preachers and pastors; others are connected 
with the high and common schools throughout Syria. The school has been 
an important instrumentality in the diffusion of light and truth.” 

Before Mr. Calhoun’s final visit to America, in 1875, he had finished his 
“ Commentary on the hour Gospels,” — a work which he had been very anx- 
ious to complete before leaving Syria. It had been his intention to return, 
and, when his work was done, be. laid away to rest under the cypress trees 
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illness while visiting relatives in Buffalo, 27. Y., prevented his attendance at 
the meeting of the American Board at Hartford, in October, 1876. . 

In answer to an invitation to be present at that meeting, Mr. Calhoun sent 
a letter to the Board in which he said : “You will be surprised to hear that 
probably when that meeting is held I shall be among the redeemed, through 
infinite mercy, in the Kingdom of Christ above. But, whether at the time I 
shall still be lingering on the earthly side, or shall have passed away, I wish 
to bear my dying testimony to the blessedness of this cause. Deeper and 
deeper has become my conviction that the work of foreign missions is the 
great mission of Christ’s church, and that it can be neglected by no organiza- 
tion or individual without personal loss.” 

To Dr. Prime, his early friend and classmate, he wrote : “ Could I, in this 

closing hour, make one exhortation more solemn than another, it would be 
to the churches of Christ to cleave with an ever-growing tenacity to the sim- 
ple oracles of God.” 

He lingered several weeks longer, suffering little pain, but gradually grow- 
ing weaker till he fell asleep, December 14, 1876. 

During his last visit to the “ goodly town of Springfield,” as he was wont 
to speak of it, a former acquaintance met him on School street, trying to find 
the trees which he set out while lie was a teacher here. “ I did it for the 
sake of my boys,” he explained. Then going with the friend to his own 
home, he had not been long in the house with the family circle, whom he 
knew to be Christians, when, as if the blessed truth had come to him with 
all the force of a new revelation, he exclaimed, “ It is wonderful that Jesus 
came from heaven to save us ! It is wonderful ! wonderful ! ” thus giving 
another illustration of the truth of what his missionary associates said of 
him : “ He often startled us with his fresh thoughts on old and familiar 

subjects. His commanding presence, his pleasant voice, and his earnest- 
ness of manner, were all calculated to give force to his words ; but there was 
something in his preaching beyond presence, or voice, or earnestness. The 
simplest truths, enunciated in the simplest way, seemed to fall from his lips 
with power. The same things said by another would have made little, if 
any impression.” 

The trees which Mr. Calhoun planted more than a half-century ago are 
still standing; his memory still lives in the hearts of many in this commu- 
nity to whom his life was an inspiration. One of his many Springfield 
friends has truthfully said: “ There was a natural dignity in his form and 
face, which was raised by the spirit that shone from within to a kind of gen- 
tle majesty. He was fit to govern a nation : he spent his life in teaching a 
group of Arab boys ; and he showed always, not patient resignation as to a 
hard lot bravely borne, but a joyful enthusiasm as of one to whom had fallen 
the most honorable and delightful service. We cannot think of such a 
man as dead. We instinctively know that he has entered into grander ac- 
tivities, into clearer vision of his Master, into closer and tenderer ties of 
love.” 

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for college at the high school under Mr. Calhoun, graduated at Amherst in 
1837, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1812, and was ordained at 
West Springfield, Feb. 9, 1813, Dr. Anderson preaching the sermon from the 
text: “ For the thing was done suddenly.” 2 Chron. 29:36. 

He was married to Isabella Porter, of Portland, Maine, Feb. 20, 1843, and 
on the 1st of March following they sailed from Boston, in company with 
missionaries, for Persia, Dr. and Mrs. Perkins, Miss Fisk, and the Nestorian 
bishop, Mar Yohannan. 

They were prevented from going to the Nestorians of Persia, as they had 
expected, on account of war between that people and the Koords, and the 
following year they were transferred to the Armenian mission, and resided 
at Trebizond. 

Subsequently they were stationed at Marsovan, at Samsoon, and at Bebek. 
Since 1856 their home has been in Constantinople, Mr. Bliss having charge 
of the mission newspaper, published in three languages. His headquarters 
are at the Bible House, a building which is both an ornament and a blessing 
to the city, and for which his brother, Rev. Isaac G. Bliss, had the principal 
agency in collecting funds, and in superintending its erection. 

In a recent letter, after more than forty years of service, Mr. Bliss writes : 
“ The question whether I should become a foreign missionary came to me 
after entering college, and my decision to become such — a decision which 1 
have never regretted — was a result, first of all, I think, of my mother’s 
prayers, and of the example of consecration which I saw in her and in my 
dear father. My life has been a busy one, and I have had little time for 
anything but the duty of the day and the hour. Our missionary work 
moves steadily onward, encountering obstacles at every step, but ever rising 
above them, so that year by year we make advance, which, as we look back 
upon it, seems marvelous in our eyes, and to be ascribed only to God’s 
hand with us.” 

Laura A. Bliss, sister of Edwin, became a member of this church in 1831, 
at the age of twelve. Her common school education was supplemented by 
a course of study at Ipswich, in the days of Miss Grant and Miss Mary 
Lyon. 

After teaching a short time, she was married July 24, 1839, to Rev. Alex- 
ander Montgomery, and went to Westfield, N. Y , where her husband had 
charge of an academy. 

From 1845 to the death of her husband in 1859, her home was at the 
West; first at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and afterward at Chicago and 
Beloit, her husband filling the duties in the first as general agent of the 
Tract Society in that region, and in the second those of district secretary of 
the American Board in the same region. 

At first it was in the heart of both of them to spend their lives in 
the foreign missionary service, but this plan had been relinquished on ac- 
count of the impaired health of Mrs. Montgomery. She, however, retained 
to the last the warmest interest in the foreign work, and in each of her 
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to improve her opportunities to help on every other good enterprise. Her 
qualities of mind and heart were such as gave her great influence over all 
with whom she became acquainted. 

After the death of her husband, Mrs. Montgomery remained for a time 
at Beloit, and then removed to Chicago, and afterwards to Ionia, Michigan, 
which had become the residence of her older children. After a long and 
painful illness she died Feb. 7, 1882. 

Emma L. Bliss, a younger sister of Rev. Edwin E. Bliss, united with this 
church in 1835; was married to Rev. Henry J. Van Lennep, a missionary of 
the American Board, and went with him to Smyrna, his native city, arriving 
there in April, 1840. Her health had always been delicate. She was sub- 
ject to attacks of palpitation of the heart, and the fatigue and excitement 
of the journey across the continent added to this difficulty, so that when she 
reached Smyrna she was seriously ill. 

In the society of the large circle of relatives of her husband, who gave 
her the kindest welcome, and soon learned to love her most warmly, and 
in that of the missionary families residing in Smyrna, she found much to 
cheer her last days ; but all the while the disease was getting more and more 
the mastery. ' No care of friends, and no skill of physicians, could check 
its progress, and on the 12th of September, 1840, just five months after 
reaching Smyrna, she went to her Saviour, whom with all the warmth of a 
most affectionate heart she had long loved, and had sought to ^erve in a 
rare spirit of humility and self-consecration. One who knew Mrs. Van 
Lennep in her early home in Springfield, and who was also well acquainted 
with her missionary life in Smyrna, says of her : 

“ Her missionary life was a very short one, but it was not without its in- 
fluence. The loveliness of her Christian character made a deep impression 
upon all the circle of friends and relatives there, many of whom had never 
before had the opportunity to witness the power of faith in Christ and of 
love to him. 

“ Her mortal remains sleep in a shaded recess of the Dutch burying- 
ground in Smyrna, but I love to think of her as living in immortal, unfading 
youth, growing ever in the beauty of holiness, forever with the Lord.” 

Margaret Bell united with this church in 1858; graduated at the high 
school the next year, and in the summer of 1862 was married to Rev. Henry 
Haskell, who was ordained at South Deerfield, the marriage ceremony being 
performed at the same time and place. 

Prof. Park, of Andover, preached the sermon from the text: “ Go ye into 
all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” Nearly every one 
who had any part in the exercises spoke of the young bride, and much was 
said about the influence of a Christian home, especially in Bulgaria, where 
Mr. Haskell was to be stationed. This fact probably led the humorous 
professor afterward to say that never before had he known a woman to be so 
thoroughly ordained. 

After ten years of service, Mr. and Mrs. Haskell returned to America, 
partly on account of Mrs. Haskell’s mother, who was suffering from a pain- 


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ful and incurable disease, which, not long ago, resulted in her death. Mr. 
llaskell is now pastor of a church in Harmer, Ohio. 

Mary E. Reynolds became a member of this church in 1852, at the age of 
fourteen. Very early in life her attention was called to the foreign mission- 
ary work. When only eight years of age she listened to an address upon 
India by Dr. Scudder in the First Church. At the close, Dr. Scudder asked 
the children present who would like to become missionaries to stand, and 
Mary Reynolds was among the few that stood up. The impression then 
made upon her was never entirely lost. Leaving the high school in 1854, 
she was engaged several years in teaching ; but after the death of her 
mother in 1858, her desire to enter upon missionary work was greatly 
strengthened and intensified, especially as she knew that this had also been 
her mother’s ardent wish. 

Her friends at first objected, on account of her health, fearing that she 
was not strong enough for the arduous work ; but when in April, 1863, they 
gave their consent, she immediately made application to the American 
Board, mentioning Turkey as her preference, although she was willing to be 
sent to any station that was thought best. 

On the 1st day of May, 1863, as Miss Reynolds was entering the chapel 
to attend the preparatory lecture, her pastor, Rev. H. M. Parsons, placed in 
her hand the following telegram from Boston : “ VVe wish Miss Reynolds 
to start for Turkey the 30th.” 

The call was sudden — only four weeks to make preparation for a sojourn 
of six years ; but many willing, helping hands accomplished far more than 
at first seemed possible, and on May 30th Miss Reynolds was on board the 
steamer “ City of Baltimore,” bound for Liverpool. 

After a brief sojourn with friends in Constantinople, where she arrived 
July 8, “ tired with delight and delightfully tired,” as she expressed it, Miss 
Reynolds continued her journey into Bulgaria, where she found a home in 
the family of Rev. E. N. Byington, and her work in being the first principal 
of the mission school for Bulgarian girls in Eski Zagra, in European Turkey. 

After six years’ service Miss Reynolds was compelled to return to America 
on account of failing health. In February, 1871, this was so far restored 
that she had about decided to go back to Bulgaria, when a severe cold de- 
veloped the latent disease, and nothing could retard its progress. Through 
much suffering her faith continued bright and strong, until on the 1st day 
of June, 1871, she passed away. 

Many letters of condolence . and sympathy came to her friends from her 
former pupils, the Bulgarian girls, and from the missionaries who had been 
associated with her. One of the latter wrote : “ Our beloved sister joined 
the mission in its early days, during the « night of toil * that always precedes 
the rising of the Sun of Righteousness. Many were her trials, and arduous 
her labors, but the Master gave her great joy as well. Few missionaries 
are permitted to see so early, precious and abundant fruit of their labors as 
she saw. Her humble, earnest and consistent Christian life was a new rev- 
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This school for Bulgarian girls was afterward removed to Samakov, a 
healthier locality, and is reported as being now in a prosperous condition. 

Rev. R. N. Ilume and Miss H. D. Sackett were married in the old First 
Church, West Springfield, on the Sabbath, at the close of the afternoon serv- 
ice, March 21, 1839. They sailed from Salem, Mass., April 1, and reached 
Bombay August 10 of the same year. 

Having previously studied the native language, they commenced mission- 
ary work at once. They resided all their missionary life in Bombay. 

In 1854 they left for Cape Town, South Africa, in accordance with urgent 
medical advice, hoping that the voyage might benefit Mr. Hume, whose 
health had failed under continued pressure of work. But he died at sea 
Nov. 26, early Sabbath morning, and at 12 o’clock the same day was buried 
in the Indian Ocean, about twenty miles off the coast of Natal, just one 
week before the vessel reached Cape Town. 

Mrs. Hume, with her six children, sailed from Cape Town for Boston, ar- 
riving in that city April 20, 1855, and the following September came to 
Springfield. After a few months Mrs. Hume united with the First 
Church, and afterward the three older children, Sarah* Catharine, and 
Hannah, united with the same upon profession. These, with the three 
younger children, Robert, Edward, and Isabella, were all members of the 
Sunday-school, in which Mrs. Hume was also a teacher. 

In 1871 after the family had removed to New' Haven, Hannah was taken 
to the heavenly home. 

The two sons, Robert and Edward, are now missionaries in India, having 
taken up the work which their father laid down more than thirty years 
ago ; and the daughter Sarah, who has been for several years in her brother 
Robert’s family, has now become a regular missionary of the Woman’s Board, 
one important item of her work being the establishment of the “Chapin 
Home,” in which women are taught industrial work and trained for Bible 
women. 

In a letter dated at New Haven, August 17, 1885, Mrs Hume writes : “The 
cause and the dear Master we have tried to serve, I never tire of talking or 
writing about. These are themes that have made my life a joy the last fifty 
years, comforting, sustaining, and gladdening my life under great trials and 
burdens and disappointments. Few families have been called to such pecul- 
iar and severe discipline, but we can all say that the grace of God has been 
sufficient for us, and He has never left us nor forsaken us.” 

Rev. Henry Bruce, another missionary in India, was for several years a 
member of the First Church Sunday-school. 

Dr. Pease is a native of Granby, Mass., a graduate of Amherst College, a 
tutor in the same institution, a medical student, a soldier in the army, a 
practicing physician. These items give but a glimpse of the personal history 
of Dr. Pease before he came to Springfield in 1870, and united with this 
church. 

Miss H. A. Sturtevant came to Springfield from Bordentown, N. J., uniting 
with the church in 1874. Dr. Pease was married to Miss Sturtevant at Bor- 
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dentown, N. J., in April, 1877, and in May they were on the way to San 
Francisco and Honolulu, whence by the “ Morning Star,” they sailed for the 
Micronesian Islands. Mrs. Pease was not only a member of the First Church, 
but the Springfield Branch of the Woman’s Board was pledged for her sup- 
port, so that in a special sense she was considered “ our missionary.” 

At first stationed at Ebon, the mission school was afterwards transferred 
to Kusaie. The friendly king of the island gave Dr. Pease a lease of a tract 
of land, large enough for all the purposes of the mission. Should the station 
ever be abandoned by the missionaries, the property is to revert to the king. 

After constructing a convenient house for his family, Dr. Pease gave him- 
self to the work of translating, preparing a dictionary of 3000 words from 
books already in use, besides continuing to work on the New Testament till 
in May, 1882, the last verse in Revelation was translated. 

Mrs. Pease writes : “ We have the work in and out of school, both for our- 
selves and all about us, systematically arranged as far as it is possible. We 
grow more and more interested in the work every year.” 

They had their holidays, too, Christmas, Thanksgiving-day, and the Fourth 
of July, the celebration of which their pupils enjoy with as much zest as if 
they were native-born Americans. But no holiday was quite equal to that 
in which the “ Morning Star ” arrived. Mrs. Pease writes : “ I don’t sup- 
pose you can possibly imagine how our thoughts center around the ‘ Star ’ 
and what she brings to us. The letters contain love and cheer which are in- 
dependent of dates. One Christmas card has these lines : 

* While you for Christ are working far away, 

Most tenderly at home for you we pray.’ 

I wish I could tell the one who sent it how much we prize this precious help ” 

At the request of her friends in Springfield, Mrs. Pease has sent, year by 
year, a detailed account of her daily life and of matters interesting to her- 
self which would not ordinarily be reported to the Board in Boston. 

In these graphic descriptions, Mrs. Pease has shown us her home on the 
beautiful island of Kusaie. Now we are admiring the roses from the home- 
land, and the shade trees which have been planted; now, we are listening to 
the prattle of her two little boys, who have been sent to brighten their island- 
home ; and, again we are watching the regularity of her household arrange- 
ments, every hour having its appropriate work ; but no scene excites more 
pleasurable emotions than that which presents the native children and youth, 
gathered around Mrs. Pease while she plays the organ, and singing in sweet, 
plaintive tones, “ Saviour, more than life to me,” “ Whiter than snow,” 
and other gospel hymns. But a brighter, a more joyous day is in store for 
the natives of Kusaie, when Dr. and Mrs. Pease who are now in this country, 
shall return to them bringing the New Testament, which Dr. Pease has just 
completed. Of all these whose names have been mentioned in this brief 
sketch, only three, now members of tHe First Church, remain in the service 
of the American Board— Dr. and Mrs. Pease of Micronesia, and Rev. Edwin 
E. Bliss of Constantinople. 



Containing 50 Stops, 2311 Pipes, and 9 Pedal 

Movements. 


BUILT BY STEERE & TURNER, 1881. 


I. MANUALE (GREAT), COMPASS FROM C 0 TO a 3 . 

1P> Feet Open Diapason, metal, 58 pipes; 16 Feet Quintation, wood, 58 pipes; 8 Feet 
Open Diapason, metal, 58 pipes; 8 Feet Viola Da Gamba, metal, 58 pipes; 8 Feet 
Doppel Flote, wood, 58 pipes; 4 Feet Octave, metal, 58 pipes; 4 Feet Flauto 
Tra verso, wood, 58 pipes; 2 2-3 Feet Twelfth, metal, 58 pipes; 2 Feet Fifteenth, 
metal, 58 pipes; 3 Rank Mixture, metal, 174 pipes; 2 Rank Cymbale, metal, 116 
pipes; 8 Feet Trumpet, metal, 58 pipes. Total, 870 pipes. 

II. MANUALE (SWELL), COMPASS FROM C 0 TO a 3 . 

16 Feet Bourdon Bass, wood; 16 Feet Bourdon Treble, wood, 58 pipes; 8 Feet Open 
Diapason, metal, 58 pipes; 8 Feet Salicional, metal, 58 pipes; 8 Feet .ZEoline, 
metal, 58 pipes; 8 Feet Stopped Diapason, wood, 58 pipes; 4 Feet Flute Har- 
monique, metal, 58 pipes; 4 Feet Violina, metal, 58 pipes; 2 Feet Flautino, 
metal, 58 pipes; 3 Rank Dolce Cornet, metal, 174 pipes; 8 Feet Cornopean, metal, 
58 pipes; 8 Feet Oboe and Bassoon, metal, 58 pipes; 8 Feet Vox Humana, 
metal, 58 pipes. Total, 812 pipes. 

III. MANUALE (SOLO), COMPASS FROM C 0 TO a 3 . 

16 Feet Leiblich Gedacht, wood, 46 pipes; 8 Feet Geigen Principal, metal, 58 pipes; 
8 Feet Dulciana, metal, 58 pipes; 8 Feet Melodia, wood, 58 pipes; 4 Feet Flute 
d’ Amour, wood, 58 pipes; 4 Feet Fugara, metal, 58 pipes; 2 Feet Piccolo, metal, 
58 pipes; 8 Feet Clarinet, metal, 46 pipes. Total, 440 pipes. 

PEDALE, COMPASS FROM C 1 TO d°. 

16 Feet Open Diapason, wood, 27 pipes; 16 Feet Bourdon, wood, 27 pipes; 16 Feet 
Violone, wood, 27 pipes; 16 Feet Trombone, wood and metal, 27 pipes; 10 2-3 
Feet Quint, wood, 27 pipes; 8 Feet Violoncello, metal, 27 pipes; 8 Feet Doppel 
Flote, wood, 27 pipes. Total, 189 pipes. 

MECHANICAL REGISTERS. 

Great to Pedale, Coupler; Swell to Pedale, Coupler; Solo to Pedale, Coupler; Bellows 
Signal ; Tremulo to Swell; Tremulo to Solo. • 

PISTON PNEUMATICS. 

Great Manuale to Pneumatic, Coupler; Swell Manuale to Pneumatic, Coupler (Swell 
to Great); Swell Manuale to Pneumatic, Coupler (Solo to Great); Swell to Solo, 
Coupler. 

PEDAL PNEUMATIC MOVEMENTS. 

Forte, Combination Pedal, I. Manuale; Piano, Combination Pedal, I. Manuale; Forte, 
Combination Pedal, II. Manuale; Piano, Combination Pedal, II. Manuale; Forte, 
Combination Pedal, for Pedal Organ ; Piano, Combination Pedal, for Pedal 
Organ. (The above Pedals are operated by Pneumatic power.) Reversible Pedal 
to Operate Pedal Coupler, I. Manuale; Adjustable Swell Pedal, II. Manuale; 
Adjustable Swell Pedal, III. Manuale; III. Manuale inclosed in a separate Swell 
Box, with Independent Pedal. 





























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